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Moira Kelly The Scottish Government has confirmed that it will introduce legislation clarifying that a tax exemption for businesses transferring ownership of property within a group of companies using shares as financial security has been available since the introduction of Land and Buildings Transa

Jenny Junnier Grant Thornton has appointed a new senior manager as it continues its expansion in the north east of Scotland.

Claire Middlebrook The liquidator of Fife camper van company St Andrews Motor Homes says owners who lost tens of thousands of pounds should not rush to court to pursue the company director who failed to give them the sale price of their vehicles.

Allan Davidson Edinburgh-based accountancy firm Chiene + Tait (C+T) has enhanced its business technology service offering with the launch of a new Digital Division.

The onwards march of 'Pretirement', where people scale back on work or slow their retirement plans down rather than giving up entirely, is continuing, according to Prudential’s latest annual research.

David Skilling Scotland’s economy has “lagged behind” that of other advanced small nations, according to a report by globally renowned expert David Skilling who argues Scotland must practice fiscal discipline to stay competitive with them.

Police in Fife have arrested seven people after staff working in branches of Bank of Scotland became suspicious of transactions involving £14,000 worth of cheques and withdrawals.

The total value of the residential sales market in Scotland from 2007-08 to 2017-18 was £161.3 billion, according to the sixth annual Registers of Scotland’s Property Market Report.

Visa has said it was a hardware failure that caused the collapse of its service for millions of its customers across Europe on Friday that left them unable to use their cards for purchases.

Elaine Cromwell A partner at Scottish accountancy firm Thomson Cooper recently attended Sage's Making Tax Digital event at the House of Commons.

Anne Hall Dick Brewin Dolphin is growing its matrimonial team in Scotland with the appointment of family law and mediation expert, Anne Hall Dick, as a consultant.

Anne Dick Wealth managers Brewin Dolphin is growing its matrimonial offering in Scotland with the appointment of family law and mediation expert, Anne Hall Dick, as a consultant.

Philip Hammond A multibillion pound sell-off of Royal Bank of Scotland shares by the UK Government is now imminent, despite them being worth little more than half of what they were when the Edinburgh-based lender was bailed out at a cost of £45.5 billion to the taxpayer in 2008.

https://youtu.be/Ey9l9m7AuEw The SNP‘s long awaited growth commission report which has been published today and is expected to signal the first moves for the party in re-opening the independence debate in Scotland, has conceded that it is to be expected that a number of Scottish banks would move t

A small number of mainly elderly people have been targeted in a spate of strikes by fraudsters in the north east of Scotland that has seen £1.2 million stolen in the past three weeks, police have said.