Fair Tax Week 2023

That the Parliament notes that Fair Tax Week takes place from 8 to 18 June 2023, and that the week celebrates companies and organisations that hold the Fair Tax Mark, which certifies that the company or organisation pays the correct level of tax in the correct jurisdiction at the correct time; understands that many companies and organisations based in Scotland have received the Fair Tax Mark, including SSE, Scottish Water, Scotmid Co-operative, Jerba Campervans and Brett Nicholls Associates; acknowledges recent polling by the Fair Tax Foundation, which, it understands, found that 74% of people would rather shop with those businesses that can prove they are paying their fair share of tax, and that 66% of people think that, in public procurement, government and local councils should consider a company’s ethics and how it pays its tax, as well as value for money and quality of service provided; congratulates the Scottish councils that have signed the Councils for Fair Tax Declaration, including Edinburgh City, South Lanarkshire, Dundee City, Midlothian and Dumfries and Galloway councils; calls on other councils to consider signing the declaration, and notes calls on the UK Government, the Scottish Government and local government to look at ways of incorporating the Fair Tax Mark into public procurement processes in order to ensure that public funds go to companies that pay their way.