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The changes to inheritance tax (IHT) contained in the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) paper Thinking bigger on tax in Scotland would be a further nail in the coffin for Scottish homeowners, a property management expert has said. David Alexander, the joint managing director of Apropos by

Big Four accountancy firm EY has appointed a new associate partner, Alan Maudsley, to lead a dedicated team in Scotland that will be focused on working with private mid-market (PMM) clients. Mr Maudsley was previously head of corporate development at Barclays and is well connected in the local busin

The private sector economy in Scotland remained "close to stagnation" in August, with only fractional growth for a second month in a row, according to new figures from the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS). According to the bank's latest PMI report, order book volumes slipped into decline last month, whi

Lloyds Banking Group has purchased Tesco Bank's mortgage book for £3.5 billion. The purchase emerges after a ferocious price war which led Tesco to abandon the mortgage market. Lloyds successfully beat competing bids from rivals Santander and Royal Bank of Scotland. 

Brodies LLP has been named Legal Advisor of the Year at this year’s Scottish Business Insider Deals and Dealmakers Awards.

The number of people moving house in Scotland has fallen to its lowest level in five years.

The Glasgow economy would lose £2.35 billion and 38,000 jobs in the event of a no-deal Brexit, according to research by Glasgow City Council economists.

Employees at a nuclear power plant connected its internal network to the internet so they could mine cryptocurrency.

Reports of investment fraud filed by savers in the UK have almost doubled in the first six months of 2019 to more than 8,000, official figures have revealed, putting them on course to all-time high by the end of the year. The data shows last year 9,398 scams were reported, according to National Frau

Anderson Anderson & Brown LLP (AAB) has announced that its dedicated Business Advisory team has secured £1 million of new business wins during 2019 so far. A flurry of new business wins by the team has resulted in this rise in fee income from last year and means it is on target to achieve

Britain’s inflation rate unexpectedly overshot the Bank of England’s 2 per cent target on Wednesday as annual consumer price inflation rose to a three-month high of 2.1 per cent in July from 2.0 per cent in June, the Office for National Statistics has said.

Former executive director of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland (ICAS), Atholl Duncan, has been appointed as the new chair of the Scottish Salmon Producers Organisation (SSPO). The appointment comes as the organisation released figures showing overseas sales of salmon have risen by 2

The UK’s economy has unexpectedly shrank 0.2 per cent in the second quarter – its first contraction since the last quarter of 2012, when GDP fell by the same amount.

Proposals to hike meat taxes in Germany – adding around 30 cents to the price of bratwurst – have been met with outcry.

Permanent staff placements fell for the first time in two-and-a-half years in Scotland last month, according to the latest Royal Bank of Scotland Report on Jobs. The bank said there were signs firms were looking at short-term staff to fulfil roles, as temp billings returned to growth.