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Citizens Advice chief executive Gillian Guy HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) has come under fire from Citizens Advice for leaving taxpayers waiting on the phone for too long.

Social Investment Scotland, which invests funds put up by banks and the Scottish and UK governments, has revealed that it provided a record £7.5 million to 45 social enterprises, charities and community organisations over the last year. SIS chairman Nick Kuenssberg, whose daughter Laura was named l

Andy Murray Andy Murray is expanding his off-court interests with investments in three start-up companies through crowdfunding platform Seedrs.

Royal Bank of Scotland has handed out more than £3.3 million in shares to its top ten executives. The awards pay out over the next five years, but chief executive Ross McEwan has already pledged to give his to charity.

Scottish Equity Partners (SEP) has completed investments totalling £99 million during the first half of 2015. Funds under management at the firm, which has 40 partners and employees across its Glasgow, Edinburgh and London offices, now exceed $1 billion with further growth expected through to 2016.

SSE takes £565m stake in North Sea gas field Perth-based energy giant SSE has announced that it is to buy a minority stake in French oil and gas giant Total's West of Shetland operations.

The Scottish construction industry is experiencing a boom, according to the latest survey of the sector's small and medium-sized (SME) firms. The latest State of Trade Survey from the Federation of Master Builders (FMB) found that Scottish SME construction companies are enjoying their fastest growth

An Edinburgh-based start-up responsible for a popular mobile shopping app has won major new funding from Royal Mail Group (RMG) and other investors. Mallzee, founded in 2013 to publish a flagship shopping app by the same name, has won a total of £2.5 million from RMG and some of its existing invest

Guarantor loans are potentially just as damaging as payday loans and are already saddling friends and relatives with "mountains of debt", Citizens Advice has warned. The charity said those put forward as a guarantor on behalf of a borrower were unknowingly signing up to guarantee expensive loan repa

Scot Young Scot Young, the Dundee-born property tycoon who was found last year impaled on railings outside his London penthouse cannot have his death ruled as a suicide, a coroner has decided.

Homecoming 2014 generated £136m for Scottish economy Scotland's Year of Homecoming in 2014 attracted 326,000 visitors and generated £136m for the economy, according to research.

P9374. (Image courtesy of Christie's). An RAF Spitfire which is the last of its kind after being painstakingly restored over five years has been sold at auction for a record £3.1 million.

The Scottish Government has dramatically revised down its estimates of how much revenue will be generated from North Sea oil and gas over the next four years. According to the 20 page oil and gas bulletin, Scottish North Sea oil revenues could drop to £500 million next year, a fraction of £7.8bn i

Chas Booth The City of Edinburgh Council has unanimously passed a motion to express concern about the effects of the proposed Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) on local services, jobs, suppliers and democracy.

Union Street masterplan revealed Union Street BDP has today published proposals of the 49 projects planned for the multi-million pound regeneration of Aberdeen city centre.