Tax Devolution

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Treasury – in the House of Commons at 11:30 am on 10 March 2015.

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Photo of Cathy Jamieson Cathy Jamieson Shadow Minister (Treasury) 11:30, 10 March 2015

Under the Scotland Act 2012, from April 2016 Scotland will indeed have significant new tax-raising powers. HMRC’s own risk register shows that the risk that Scottish taxpayers will not be identified by April 2016 has risen from amber to red, so can the Chief Secretary tell the House why, despite these being the biggest changes to Scottish tax ever, only 11 full-time equivalent HMRC staff are working on them and, according to Audit Scotland, they rely on a single official in the Scottish Government?