a recipe for massive social benefits fraud, and massive employer tax credit fraud.
if you are accepting scanned documents off the internet, for individuals, how do you know that the proof of identity sent: is resident in scotland, belongs to the person who sent it, or even exists?
remember, any legal resident of the EEA can live and work in Scotland, that’s over 30 countries with over 500 mil people.
similarly for businesses, there would be approx 100-200k small businesses, many of which will not be incorporated. how do you validate that the business is owned by the person who sent the scan, operates in scotland, or even exists?
every social benefits fraudster and tax credit scammer in the world will be after scotland with this approach.
but, you know what, this is theory. i am pretty sure that scotland is going to vote yes, and we are going to have a live test that what you say can actually be done !
The latest polls suggest that the vote will be "no." But I have no dog in that fight, so indeed let's wait and see!