Parliamentary questions can be asked by any MSP to the Scottish Government or the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body. The questions provide a means for MSPs to get factual and statistical information.
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To ask the Scottish Executive what distributional analyses and by whom underpin the conclusion that 95% of the property market would benefit from the Scottish Government's proposed revenue-neutral change to property transaction tax.
To ask the Scottish Executive how it calculates the revenue neutral property transaction tax scenario that “would bring benefits to about 95 per cent of the property market”; how many (a) private dwellings, (b) commercial, (c) local authority, (d) NHS and (e) non-NHS public properties would be subject to (i) higher and (ii) lower tax, and what it estimates the average difference to be.
To ask the Scottish Executive what discussions it has had with business and industry representatives regarding its plan to set up a separate tax collection agency, broken down by (a) organisation and representatives, (b) date of meeting or correspondence and (c) ministers involved.
To ask the Scottish Executive (a) on what date and (b) how HM Revenue and Customs indicated that it would cost £22,274,000 to collect land and buildings transaction tax and landfill tax on behalf of the Scottish Government until 31 March 2020 (Official Report, c. 9909).
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will publish its correspondence with HM Revenue and Customs regarding the cost of collecting stamp duty land tax and landfill tax on behalf of the Scottish Government.
To ask the Scottish Executive at what property value purchasers would pay more under the revenue neutral property transaction tax scenario whereby all house purchases below £180,000 are exempt and how many (a) private dwellings, (b) commercial, (c) local authority, (d) NHS and (e) non-NHS public properties would be subject to (i) higher and (ii) lower tax; what the average difference would be, and how this has been calculated.
To ask the Scottish Executive what the basis is for its figure of £16,706,000 for a separate tax collection agency to collect stamp duty land tax and landfill tax and whether this includes set-up, ongoing and future contingency and running costs.
To ask the Scottish Executive when it will bring forward details for a local income tax and whether the principles of that scheme will be the same as those of the scheme that was subject to a ruling by the Scottish Information Commissioner.
To ask the Scottish Executive what discussions it has had with (a) HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) and (b) trade unions regarding the future of the HMRC staff employed in Scotland as a result of the Scottish Government's plan to set up a separate tax collection agency, and who was involved in such discussions.
To ask the Scottish Executive what changes it has made to the organisation of the civil service to deal with tax changes arising from the Scotland Act 2012 and whether this includes secondments from the Treasury or HM Revenue and Customs.