>“However, we have also made the point that oil and gas companies are not alone in profiting from recent global events, and that a windfall tax should apply to all companies posting significantly higher profits.”
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>She added: “The Chancellor’s failure to implement this fairly now means that Scottish industry is carrying a disproportionate burden of funding what is a UK-wide response, and it also means that the support available is still far too limited.
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>“By widening out and using the fiscal headroom available, the chancellor could have gone beyond one-off measures and introduce long term strategies such as, for example, introducing an equivalent of the Scottish child payment.”
I don’t see anything particularly controversial in that statement.
She kinda has a point. Amazon made fucking billion during lockdown they didn’t get a windfall tax.
Yes other mega companies posting record breaking profits should be paying windfall taxes too but perhaps Scotland should have diversified beyond climate damaging industry already?
The grievance machine grumbles on.
Everything is someone else’s fault to these folk.
Aka Sturgeon believes that oil companies (and hence Scottish industry) should be able to profit from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine?
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>“However, we have also made the point that oil and gas companies are not alone in profiting from recent global events, and that a windfall tax should apply to all companies posting significantly higher profits.”
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>She added: “The Chancellor’s failure to implement this fairly now means that Scottish industry is carrying a disproportionate burden of funding what is a UK-wide response, and it also means that the support available is still far too limited.
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>“By widening out and using the fiscal headroom available, the chancellor could have gone beyond one-off measures and introduce long term strategies such as, for example, introducing an equivalent of the Scottish child payment.”
I don’t see anything particularly controversial in that statement.
She kinda has a point. Amazon made fucking billion during lockdown they didn’t get a windfall tax.
Yes other mega companies posting record breaking profits should be paying windfall taxes too but perhaps Scotland should have diversified beyond climate damaging industry already?
The grievance machine grumbles on.
Everything is someone else’s fault to these folk.
Aka Sturgeon believes that oil companies (and hence Scottish industry) should be able to profit from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine?