Forthcoming Publications – September 2024

Autumn/Winter 2024 (date TBC)Scotland’s Economic and Fiscal Forecasts. These forecasts are part of the Commission’s main forecast publication series and will provide new economic, tax, and social security forecasts to accompany the Scottish Government’s 2025-26 Budget announcement. The Scottish Government is expected to announce the Budget publication date in due course.

Recent Publications – 27 August 2024 at 9.30 am

Fiscal Update – August 2024. This report considers the implications for the Scottish Government’s fiscal outlook of new information that has become available since our last set of forecasts. This new information includes outturn data for Scottish income tax in 2022-23, provisional outturn data on funding and spending in 2023-24 and changes to UK funding. It will also provide some commentary on the economic developments since our last forecasts in December 2023. You will find it here: Fiscal Update – August 2024

Forecast Evaluation Report– August 2024. This report reviews our forecast performance for 2023-24 and our income tax forecasts for 2022-23. You will find it here: Forecast Evaluation Report – August 2024

Statement of Data Needs – August 2024. This reports considers the data we use to produce our forecasts and inform our analysis, and ways in which it could be improved. You will find it here: Statement of Data Need – August 2024

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