Responding to the news that the Scottish Government is planning more spending cuts, Jamie Livingstone, Head of Oxfam Scotland, said: “When the numbers perennially don’t add up, something’s got to change. Scotland’s policy ambitions can’t be sacrificed due to a lack of cash. In the upcoming Budget process and new Tax Strategy, Ministers must instead re-think devolved and local tax to unlock the resources needed to realise the First Minister’s promise to build the fairer, greener, more equal country we all want to live in.”
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