{"id":720,"date":"2026-01-16T21:13:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T21:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uxguy.co.uk\/ac-wealth\/?p=720"},"modified":"2026-01-28T16:11:30","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T16:11:30","slug":"the-scottish-budget-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uxguy.co.uk\/ac-wealth\/2026\/01\/16\/the-scottish-budget-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"The Scottish Budget 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Establish how The Scottish Budget impacts you and your business<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>The recent Scottish Budget focused on measures to improve the health and well-being of the people of Scotland and boosting public services. While the Westminster Budget has increased the settlement for Scotland, the government faced a shortfall of around \u00a31 billion for the coming year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some of the key highlights announced included:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The tax thresholds for basic and intermediate tax rates will increase by 7.4% in 2026\/27. Other thresholds remain frozen.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Land and Buildings Transaction Taxes remain unchanged.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Two higher council tax bands will be introduced from April 2028 on properties worth more than \u00a31 million after some \u2018targeted revaluation\u2019.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A tax on travel by private jet will come in from April 2027.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Public sector efficiency reforms will be introduced to save \u00a31.5 billion.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Scottish Child Payment will increase in line with inflation, with an increase to \u00a340 for children under a year old from 2027\/28.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Breakfast clubs will be offered in all primary and special schools by August 2027.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The small business bonus scheme is extended for the next three years, and a 15% rate relief will apply to retail, hospitality and leisure businesses at the basic or intermediary property level (capped at \u00a3110,000 a business each year).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Social care workers will receive a minimum of the real living wage of \u00a313.45.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>We have summarised these and the other main announcements and measures that may affect you in this&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/wealth.acandco.com\/assets\/uploads\/AC-Wealth-Scottish-Budget-January-2026.pdf\">document<\/a>. Please get in&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/wealth.acandco.com\/contact\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">touch<\/a>&nbsp;if you would like to discuss any aspect of the Budget and its implications.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Establish how The Scottish Budget impacts you and your business The recent Scottish Budget focused on measures to improve the health and well-being of the people of Scotland and boosting public services. While the Westminster Budget has increased the settlement for Scotland, the government faced a shortfall of around \u00a31 billion for the coming year. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":721,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uxguy.co.uk\/ac-wealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uxguy.co.uk\/ac-wealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uxguy.co.uk\/ac-wealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uxguy.co.uk\/ac-wealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uxguy.co.uk\/ac-wealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=720"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/uxguy.co.uk\/ac-wealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":727,"href":"https:\/\/uxguy.co.uk\/ac-wealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720\/revisions\/727"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uxguy.co.uk\/ac-wealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uxguy.co.uk\/ac-wealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uxguy.co.uk\/ac-wealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uxguy.co.uk\/ac-wealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}