Approach to Policy Costings

September 2019

When the Scottish Government makes a policy change to an existing tax or benefit, we produce a policy costing. The first step in the policy costing is to produce a costing based on no one changing their behaviour as a result of the change. We then assess whether people or firms may change their behaviour in response to the change.

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