GERS
Beyond GERS: Scotland’s fiscal position post-independence
Author / Creator: Craig Dalzell
Media type: Policy Paper
Date published: 2017
GERS (Government Expenditure and Revenue Scotland) is not a good guide to the position of Scotland post independence.
Revealed: The Accounting Trick that Hides Scotland’s Wealth (2020)
Author / Creator: Gordon MacIntyre-Kemp
Media type: Assessment report
Date published: 2020
The UK Government has diverted Scotland’s wealth to the UK Treasury to pay off its debts. Thus it creates 100% of Scotland’s supposed debts and 100% of its phoney deficit. This is the impact of Westminster’s debt loading alone, and upon that accounting trick, rests the entire economic case for the Union. Would an independent Scotland have to pay the rUK a population share of the UK’s historical debt? No – there is in fact a very strong case for Scotland to be compensated for having already paid more than it’s “fair share” of the UK’s debt
Common Weal analysis of GERS 2016-2017 reveals economic opportunities of independence
Author / Creator: Craig Dalzell
Media type: Assessment report
Date published:
An independent Scotland could be better off to the tune of at least £7.5 billion in comparison to the figures in the 2017 GERS paper effectively cutting the deficit by over half. The very act of Scottish Independence would boost tax revenue by at least £7.5 billion per year.
New GERS data fundamentally makes the case for Scottish Independence
Author / Creator: MacIntyre-Kemp, Gordon
Media type: business network website article
Date published: August 2021
It is clear that Scotland being an economic region of the UK is what is holding Scotland back from reaching that economic potential. The author sets out what the latest GERS figures represent and how they can be misleading in terms of Scotland's capabilities as an independent nation.