The Accounting Trick that Hides Scotland’s Wealth
GERS has less importance than some believe. The figures are estimates with a number of contested assumptions.
What does GERS have to do with Independence?
People want to know how the annual GERS figures tell us about independence.
This is why the Westminster myths about independence are wrong. Open minds on independence #18
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Fast Facts
This looks at three myths about Scottish independence:
MYTH 1: You'll have had your referendum.
MYTH 2: Scotland has a huge deficit because we spend too much on public services.
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FFS explains: what is the GERS report and what can it tell you?
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Published annually, the report details the difference between Scotland’s tax revenues and its public service expenditure.
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A Guide to the Government Expenditure and Revenue Scotland (GERS) Report
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2021
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The possible financial costs and risks, or savings and opportunities, of implementing a new constitutional framework are, naturally, not considered in GERS. Similarly, it does not report on the effects of faster or slower economic growth in an independent Scotland.
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Response to latest Government Expenditure and Revenue Scotland (GERS) estimates
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The large debts shown by the 2020/1 GERS are temporary and not structural. They do not indicate that Scotland cannot afford to be inedpendent.
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Revealed: The ACCOUNTING TRICK that Hides Scotland’s Wealth (2020)
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2020
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The UK Government has diverted Scotland’s wealth to the UK Treasury to pay off its debts. Thus it creates 100% of Scotland’s supposed debts and 100% of its phoney deficit. This is the impact of Westminster’s debt loading alone, and upon that accounting trick, rests the entire economic case for t
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