Support from The Scottish Government to retailers: FOI release
- Published
- 4 September 2025
- Directorate
- Local Government and Housing Directorate
- Topic
- Money and tax, Public sector
- FOI reference
- FOI/202500461997
- Date received
- 14 April 2025
- Date responded
- 29 April 2025
Information request and response under the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002
Information requested
The Scottish Government is supporting retailers through various reliefs, including the Small Business Bonus Scheme, with a total value of £685 million.
Response
The £685 million mentioned in the quote related to the estimated cost of non-domestic rates reliefs in 2024-25.
The information you have requested is available from the Scottish Fiscal Commission's 'Scotland's Economic and Fiscal Forecasts - December 2023' under Figure S4.12 in the 'Chapter 4 - Tax - Supplementary Figures' workbook. This can be accessed from the Scottish Fiscal Commission's website at https://fiscalcommission.scot/publications/scotlands-economic-and-fiscal-forecastsdecember-2023/.
Under section 25(1) of FOISA, we do not have to give you information which is already reasonably accessible to you. If, however, you do not have internet access to obtain this information from the website(s) listed, then please contact me again and I will send you a paper copy.
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Contact
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Central Correspondence Unit
Email: contactus@gov.scot
Phone: 0300 244 4000
The Scottish Government
St Andrew's House
Regent Road
Edinburgh
EH1 3DG