{"id":367546,"date":"2026-01-13T15:33:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T15:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/367546\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T15:33:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T15:33:08","slug":"scottish-budget-2026-follow-live-as-shona-robison-reveals-governments-spending-and-tax-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/367546\/","title":{"rendered":"Scottish Budget 2026: Follow live as Shona Robison reveals government&#8217;s spending and tax plans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What is happening to Scotland&#8217;s income tax bands?published at 15:18 GMT<\/p>\n<p>15:18 GMT<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Scotland currently has used devolved powers to create a tax system where people earning less than about \u00a330,000 pay slightly less tax than elsewhere in the UK, but people earning more than that face progressively higher taxation. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Robison cannot change the level at which people start paying tax, currently \u00a312,571, as that is reserved to Westminster. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, she is now raising the threshold of two of Scotland&#8217;s other tax bands meaning people will pay the 19% starter rate on more of their money.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The basic (20%) rate, which currently starts at \u00a315,398, will go up by 7.,4% to \u00a316,537.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The intermediate rate (21%), which currently starts at \u00a327,492, will also go up by the same amount to \u00a329,527.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The higher tax rate (42%) will continue to kick in at \u00a343,663.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The advanced rate and top rate will also remain unchanged.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What is happening to Scotland&#8217;s income tax bands?published at 15:18 GMT 15:18 GMT Scotland currently has used devolved&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":367547,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-367546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=367546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367546\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/367547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}