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Mr Macias' image of Mr Sanchez inspired an outpouring of generosity An online crowdfunding campaign has raised a staggering $200,000 (£150,000) within days for an elderly Chicago ice lolly seller who was pictured struggling to push his cart as he attempted to provide for his tragedy-hit family.

David Melhuish The Scottish Property Federation (SPF) has called for the 5 per cent threshold of residential LBTT to be raised to £500,000 in the light of evidence suggesting a downturn in the value and number of transactions in the first year of LBTT.

https://vimeo.com/175807056 Irreverent Scottish brewer and crowdfuning pioneer, BrewDog is again taking matters into its own hands in its efforts to conquer America.

Martin Gilbert CEO of Aberdeen Asset Management has raised questions over why so few chief financial officers are female. Speaking ahead of a diversity forum at the Aberdeen Asset Management Ladies Scottish Open, Mr Gilbert highlighted that despite 60 per cent of the intake into the accountancy prof

Derek MacKay More than £62 million is expected to have been raised in tax revenue from the Scottish Government’s doubling of the supplement rate applicable to large businesses.

Global accountancy firm PwC has raised concerns that a proposed second homes levy due to come into force within months as a planned amendment to the Land and Buildings Transaction Tax (LBTT), which will impose an extra three per cent levy on the purchase of a second home costing more than £40,000,

Aberdeenshire-based BrewDog has raised over £10 million through its Equity for Punks IV scheme, breaking a world record for the highest amount raised through equity crowdfunding. The highest amount previously raised through equity crowdfunding was $6 million, according to MarketWatch.

Edinburgh-based urban regeneration specialist Sigma Capital has raised £20 million through a share placing to build its own portfolio in the private rented sector (PRS). The initiative follows the Edinburgh-based firm’s existing PRS joint venture agreements with Gatehouse Bank and Grainger.

Martin Watt and James Dickie. Aberdeenshire-based craft-beer group and crowdfunding pioneer BrewDog has raised £5 million in just 20 days as a result of its latest round of fundraising.

Keith Miller CBE Edinburgh-based Miller Homes has raised its projections to 3,000 homes a year after posting strong profit growth for 2014.

Taxes on UK workers increased at the fastest rate among the world's wealthiest economies last year, according to the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). The Paris-based organisation's annual study of taxes across the developed world found that Britain's "tax wedge", which m

Scottish investment giant Baillie Gifford is poised to reap a £3.5 billion return on its early bet on SpaceX, as Elon Musk's rocket company prepares for what is expected to be the largest public listing in stock market history.

Nearly four in ten private sector employers are planning to scrap pension salary sacrifice schemes following the Chancellor's decision to cap national insurance relief at £2,000 per year, according to research by Standard Life. The new polling, conducted among 500 business leaders, shows that

The United Kingdom faces the steepest economic hit from the Iran war among the world's advanced economies, according to the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) latest World Economic Outlook. The IMF has revised its forecast for UK growth this year down to 0.8%, from the 1.3% predicted in January bef

A rare 200-year-old flute closely linked to Scotland’s national poet, Robert Burns, will be played in the United States for the first time this week as part of an urgent campaign to save the farm where Auld Lang Syne was written.