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Mark Stewart, Jamie Davidson, Mark Conetta Johnston Carmichael’s expertise in the infrastructure and renewables sectors has been bolstered by the addition of a new team who have joined the firm this month from RSM UK.

Liz Cameron The Scottish Chambers of Commerce has today claimed that the Scottish economy is currently sitting on “a knife edge between growth and recession” as it revealed data showing a mixed start to the year for businesses north of the border.

Perth-based transport giant Stagecoach has placed orders for about 480 buses and coaches in deals worth a total of £97m. The firm said it was buying £82m worth of new vehicles for its regional networks in England, Scotland and Wales.

Vishal Chopra Grant Thornton has called for all parties in Holyrood to make tax simplification a post-election priority.

The average cash losses from the Scottish government’s proposed council tax reforms will be over ten times greater for the richest tenth of households compared to the poorest half, according to a new report published today by the Resolution Foundation. The report, entitled Battle of the Bands, mod

DFM John Swinney meets with Modern Apprentices at Aberdeen Asset Management. The number of employees working at companies that have made the Scottish Business Pledge has broken through the 56,000 barrier it has been announced.

Scottish school children will be encouraged to manage their money from an early age through a new Junior Savers Scheme. Credit unions will be able to bid for a share of £300,000 Scottish Government funding to develop savers schemes in schools across the country next year.

The University of Edinburgh is taking steps to ensure that the goods it buys do not contain so-called conflict minerals. The move – a first for a UK university – will seek to put pressure on suppliers to eradicate minerals associated with financing wars in Africa from their supply chains.

The next Scottish Government faces a funding gap of more than £2 billion each year by 2020, with tax rises alone unlikely to eliminate spending and welfare cuts, a think tank has found. A new report from the Institute for Public Policy Research Scotland (IPPR Scotland) has analysed how new Scottish

The Competition and Markets Authority has issued a warning to over 100 wedding and event venues that their requirements for large deposits and cancellation charges could breach consumer law. The CMA advice reminds the businesses – which provide venues for a range of events including wedding recept

Greater help is to be offered to small and medium-sized businesses in Scotland, with plans to expand the Scottish Investment Bank (SIB). The move follows the Scottish Government’s Programme for Government commitment to create a Business Development Bank (BDB) to address the gaps in the market for

Scottish local authorities will receive a total funding package of £10.3 billion in 2016-17 as council tax will be frozen for the ninth consecutive year, deputy first minister John Swinney confirmed yesterday. The settlement includes over £26 million for Discretionary Housing Payments, part of the

The Scottish Government's budget for the next year has been passed by MSPs as trade union members protested outside Holyrood over cuts to council budgets and local authority job cuts. MSPs passed the budget by 64 votes to 57 after opposition parties continued to press Finance Secretary John Swinney

First-time buyers in Scotland are on average £1,440 (19 per cent) a year better off with their own home compared to those who rent, according to new research from the Bank of Scotland. The average monthly buying cost (including mortgage payments1) associated with a first-time buyer buying a three b

Ratings agency Moody’s has said that it considers an indemnity of £1.7 billion provided to Clydesdale Bank by former parent firm National Australia Bank prior to this week’s demerger of the two businesses as more-than-adequate for a bank the size of the Glasgow-based lender. The ratings agency,