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Alan Stewart, tax partner at chartered accountancy practice Meston Reid & Co urges individuals to consider all the options when it comes to inheritance tax. There’s unlikely to be any single solution for people looking to minimise their estate’s exposure to inheritance tax (IHT) liab

International travel money specialist Equals has opened an office in Edinburgh, in a move to strengthen its presence across the UK. The e-banking and international payments group, which currently has offices in London and Chester, has grown rapidly in recent years and had a turnover of &po

Using credit cards to gamble is to be banned, according to the Gambling Commission.

Aberdeen-based IT specialist Clark Integrated Technologies has urged the Scottish professional sector to take account of cybersecurity to protect the tendering process. The Scottish public sector spends more than £11 billion a year buying goods, services and works but SMEs in the professional

For the first time in six years, consumers have repaid more credit card debt than they have borrowed, according to new data collected by the Bank of England. 

Citizens Advice Scotland (CAS) has cautiously welcomed new rules around bank overdrafts but is warning that the changes could hit some people in the pocket in 2020.

A management reshuffle has occurred at accountancy firm RSM following the discovery of an error in its accounts.  RSM scored a major win last year when it was appointed as auditor to Sports Direct. However, the company's accounts for the year to 31st March revealed that the firm had made e

Andrew Donaldson, the current finance director of Fife-based family timber merchanting business James Donaldson and Son, will take on the role of group managing director later this year. In July last year, the firm announced that group managing director Scott Cairns would step down later in 2019.

It is likely that the British Treasury will have to refund billions of pounds to freelance workers after it announced that it was minimising its crackdown on tax avoidance after it faced criticism in an official report.

Johnston Carmichael's new chief executive Andrew Walker has outlined the firm's plans to expand its presence in Glasgow on the back of its rise in growth and profits this year. In an exclusive interview with The Herald, Andrew Walker hailed 8% growth in revenue to almost £50 million,

The Sir Donald Brydon CBE Assess, Assure and Inform: Improving Audit Quality and Effectiveness report has recommended that auditors should be made independent from the larger accountancy profession. The report has emphasised the need for such a move in an effort to "stimulate improved quality and ef

Students from a Glasgow primary school were treated to a VIP visit to Scottish Ballet’s headquarters thanks to KPMG UK.

Scotland’s social housing sector has seen a continued increase in lender and investor confidence and remains financially strong with sufficient access to funding, a new report has found.

A fifth (22%) of finance professionals are opting for multiple jobs and the flexibility of temporary contracts in order to improve their CVs and solidify future career opportunities, according to research conducted by Reed.

Scores of people could be entitled to significant compensation payouts after being sold interest-only mortgages which put them at risk of being forced to move in order to pay off loans.