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HM Revenue & Customs has admitted to the Commons public accounts committee that it had allowed 11,000 Chinese firms to register for VAT at a single residential flat in Wales without verifying who lived there. The scam was discovered after the flat owner received thousands of letters demanding mo

A unique luxury property which overlooks the Old Course and iconic Swilcan Bridge at St Andrews Links, and has a remarkable golfing pedigree, is being offered for sale by Thorntons Solicitors, priced at offers over £1.95 million.

The Scottish National Investment Bank has invested a further £20 million to help connect 100,000 rural homes to ultrafast fibre broadband. The bank originally provided cornerstone funding of £20m to Lothian Broadband Networks (LBN) in 2021. LBN will use the additional funding to complete

The Scottish Government has allocated a further £25 million from its Just Transition Fund to support the energy transition in the North East, with the goal of making the region a global leader in net zero efforts.

Research from KPMG UK has revealed significant reductions in consumer spending in 2023 and potential responses to the end of energy bill support payments in April.

North Berwick is the most expensive seaside town in Scotland to buy a home, with an average cost of £440,172 in 2022, as seaside property prices rose 11% across Scotland, according to the latest analysis from Bank of Scotland.

A retired optometrist who unsuccessfully sued Gwyneth Paltrow over a ski crash in 2016 has said the ordeal was not worth it.

Blair Milne and James Fennessey, partners with Azets, have been appointed joint administrators of one of the UK’s longest continuously operating care homes, Balmanno House in the West End of Glasgow.

DM Hall has acquired a long established Edinburgh architectural reporting business, AWA, for an undisclosed sum. AWA offers an architectural reporting service that gives solicitors and home owners peace of mind when alterations have been carried out without consent, either confirming that no consent

Evelyn Partners has bolstered its Edinburgh office with the appointment of Duncan Arthur as financial planning director. Mr Arthur is highly experienced and holds the coveted Chartered Financial Planner status. He joins from Blackadders Wealth Management in Dundee where he was director of financial

Henderson Loggie has appointed of Fiona Doctor and Jacqueline Watson as new partners, reflecting the accountancy firm’s commercial focus on driving growth. These are specialist non-accounting appointments, unusual in accountancy firms, and bring the number of women partners in the 18-strong le

A year on from publishing the FinTech Research and Innovation Roadmap, FinTech Scotland has revealed that it is on track to hit its targets for economic growth. In March 2022, FinTech Scotland, the independent cluster body, published a strategic FinTech Research and Innovation Roadmap, identifying i

It should come as no surprise that the founder of a design company with the word ‘glass’ in its name has an interest in the use of natural light, but for Indeglås’ Jeanette MacIntyre, her love of light runs deep. “Right from an early age, I had a natural appreciation of

Hungry Scots have munched their way through more than 185 million carrots from Aldi Scotland, which reported impressive sales of the root vegetable this International Carrot Day (4 April). Kevin the Carrot, Aldi's beloved mascot, revealed the discount retailer sold over 203,000 1kg bags of carrots,

Whisky enthusiasts can now acquire a limited-edition Caledonian Sleeper single cask single malt, created in partnership with Annandale Distillery to celebrate 150 years of Scotland-to-London sleeper services.