Tuesday 9 September 2014

These are the Corporation Tax Revenues since the start of the century –

1999/2000                   £1.148 billion                          2007/2008                  £5.728 billion
2000/2001                   £2.329 billion                         2008/2009                 £9.826 billion
2001/2002                   £3.515 billion                          2009/2010                  £4.998 billion
2002/2003                   £3.662 billion                         2010/2011                   £6.863 billion
2003/2004                   £3.057 billion                         2011/2012                   £8.840 billion
2004/2005                   £3.831 billion                         2012/2013                   £4.393 billion
2005/2006                   £7.307 billion                         2013/2014                   £3.556 billion
2006/2007                   £6.709 billion

What strikes me as obvious, is that the tax breaks given to the industry by the Treasury for them to make major new investments during 2013/14 (the highest for 30 years) was timed deliberately so as to reduce revenues for the year of the vote for Scottish Independence.    

Even so, as can be seen, the figure of £3.556 billion is still higher than that for 1999/2000, as well as 2000/01, 2001/02, and 2003/04, which exposes the oft repeated lie of falling revenues in recent years, with the highest revenues being in 2008/09 and 2011/12.

I have received information from a reliable source that "those in the know" in the oil industry have been told to keep their mouths firmly shut about the extent of oil discoveries west of Shetland until after the Referendum.

See also:  More blogs by John Jappy

5 comments:

  1. After reading this and with regards to your last paragraph I'd like to share this link with you. http://www.snp.org/media-centre/news/2015/may/snp-welcome-expert-west-coast-oil-exploration
    This would be an amazing opportunity for us in Scotland, but I'm very worried that any future oil boom will only end up in the hands of our new Tory government unleashed.
    The only way I can see us benefitting from this would be to force another referendum, but with the resent attempts of the Tories at scrapping the HRA I'm worried that a re-written "Bill of Rights" (I think partly devised to keep Scotland in line in future) would have deliberate wording to prevent this. I'm hoping that our Holyrood now has sufficient might to block this but if you'd like to reply to my comment, my Twitter name is @blessedxbe36
    I do love your blogs - please keep writing them. :-D

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    1. The Tory government can scrap all they like. it will make no difference. Independence by the gun if need be.

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  2. If possible please inform us all as much of the information regarding oil finds. TY

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  3. Why do you think America wants trade deal with us, and will only deal with Westminster if Scotland's included, England's got nothing they want.

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  4. Too late it's already in the public domain, we alreday knew about it before the msm released the info & how much reserves are there. Still be pumping out oilod from Scottish waters for 100 years. & before anyone jumps on the Band Waggon. It matters NOT about the GREEN side of things we will be needing oil for a helluva long time yet. It's used in a lot more than you think.

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