The truth about the annual GERS figures. Open Minds on Independence #6

Primary Author or Creator
The National
Additional Author(s) / Creators
Believe in Scotland
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News Media
Date Published
Fast Facts

There is no set of official accounts that tells us how an independent Scotland’s economy would fare, nor what its finances would look like. Any attempt to analyse Scotland’s finances is instantly hampered by the fact that Scotland is not an independent nation and therefore does not have the same financial data, trade statistics, costs and revenue information available to work with that a normal independent country would have.