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Widespread misconceptions about apprentice pay, qualifications and other important benefits are putting many school leavers off pursuing this route to the workplace, according to new research from insurance firm, Prudential. Launched to coincide with the start of Scottish Apprenticeship Week 2016, t

John Swinney Revenue Scotland has received its 100,000th tax return, ten months on from the creation of the first Scottish taxes in more than 300 years.

A tourism tax aimed at raising up to £15 million annually for Edinburgh is expected to be given the go-ahead. The news comes as a senior councillor at Highland Council has suggested a tax on hotel rooms would raise millions of pounds to improve facilities and attractions in the north of the country

Ten years after Edinburgh-based Martin Currie responded to its own staff’s calls for the firm to do more for worthy causes the fund manager is on the brink of chalking up nearly £3 million raised through a decade's worth of charity work. A 2005 staff satisfaction survey revealed to bosses the dis

Willie Rennie The Scottish Liberal Democrats have announced that they are committed to increasing income tax by a penny in order to fund what they say would be “the biggest investment in Scottish education since devolution”.

New legislation to introduce a supplement on purchases of additional residential properties has been published by the Scottish Parliament today. The Land and Buildings Transaction Tax (LBTT) (Amendment) (Scotland) Bill proposes a supplement on the purchase of additional homes, for example second hom

A Scottish charity has become the second largest shareholder in a Scottish Premiership football team after being gifted over half a million pounds worth of shares. The Highland Hospice, which provides palliative care for people throughout the Highlands, has been given a 19 per cent stake in Invernes

Moray Council could become the first Scottish local authority to break the eight year council tax freeze. None of Scotland’s 32 councils have increased tax since the Scottish Governmentintroduced a freeze in 2007.

Luke Robertson A 30-year-old financial worker from Stonehaven is about to become the first Scot and youngest Brit to reach the South Pole in a solo, unsupported and unassisted expedition –only two years after surviving a brain tumour.

Nicola Sturgeon A final deal on the fiscal framework accompanying the Scotland Bill has to be in place by February, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has agreed with Prime Minister David Cameron at a meeting in Downing Street yesterday.

Nora Senior Speaking at the Scottish Chambers of Commerce’s 23rd Annual Business Address last night, chairman Nora Senior called for action after revealing that just 100 companies are currently responsible for more than 60 per cent of Scottish exports.

Royal Bank of Scotland, along with Standard Chartered, has emerged as the weakest of Britain's seven largest lenders following a Bank of England stress test. It is the second time the central bank carried out its annual test of the UK's biggest lenders in order to gauge their resilience in the face

Luke Davis Senior financial services leaders say the key to staff retention in a tight jobs market will be a rewarding career path rather than increased salaries or bonuses, according to new research1 from leading recruitment specialist Robert Half Financial Services.

Scotland's public spending watchdog has found no evidence of fraud or corruption in Celtic's purchase of land for their Lennoxtown training complex. However, the investigation by Audit Scotland did raise a series of weaknesses in the financial monitoring arrangements by the various public bodies inv

The House of Lords has called on the Prime Minister to halt the Scotland Bill amid fears the process is being undertaken with “undue haste” and without an assessment of the political and economic consequences for the UK. In its report A fracturing Union? The Economic Affairs Committee said there