Local Government finance: the Funding Formula and local taxation income

Note: Within Revenue Funding, £9.5m funding was ring-fenced in 207-18 for the Teachers Induction Scheme, Discretionary Housing Payments, and Gaelic.

Image: Figure 1 - Sources of local government funding in 2017-18.

Image: Figure 2: Sources of local government funding

Image: Figure 4 - Grant Aided Expenditure + Special Islands Needs Allowance, 2008-09 to 2018-19, cash.

Image: Figure 5 - change in Estimated Service Expenditure per capita, 2015-16 to 2018-19.

Image: Figure 3 - Total Estimated Expenditure, 2018-19

Image: Figure 6 - Service-Level GAEs in 2018-19

Image: Figure 8 - Non-Domestic Rates Income and Council Tax, 1998-99 to 2016-17, cash.

Image: Figure 9 - Non-Domestic Rates and Council Tax as a share of Scotland's on-shore tax revenue, 1998-99 to 2018-19.

Image: Figure 10 - Council Tax, NDRI and Revenue grant funding allocations as a proportion of total funding, 2018-19.

Image: Figure 11 - Proportion of income from Council Tax, 2016-17 to 2018-19, percentage point change

Image: Figure 7 - Special Islands Needs Allowance, 2008-09 to 2018-19, cash.

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