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The weak pound and soaring numbers of American tourists helped drive strong growth in overseas visits to Scotland in the first three months of this year.

Dan Smith Office take-up in Aberdeen in the first half of 2017 has already reached approximately 270,000 sq ft (25,083 sq m), marking a 17 per cent increase on total take-up for the whole of 2016, which registered 231,000 sq ft / 21,469 sq m, according to real estate advisor Savills.

Susie Walker The UK Government’s plan for a digital transformation of how businesses report to HMRC has been pushed back after businesses complained the changes were coming in too quickly.

Fiona Grant An artisan sea salt company which supplied Sainbury’s and was a recipient of funding from Highlands and Islands Enterprise before its product was exposed by food inspectors for containing “80 per cent imported table salt” has gone into liquidation, with Fiona Grant and Lisa Hogg of

The UK government is to relocate 2,900 HMRC staff to a new hub at the centre of Edinburgh in a move that will see the number of the government department’s Scottish sites cut down to two main regional hubs.

Graeme Gibson Thirteen Scottish-based accountants have been named among ICAS’s 35 Chartered Accountants (CAs) under 35 for 2017.

The first sale of government shares in Royal Bank of Scotland in August 2015 was “well planned and organised and represented value for money”, according to a new report by the National Audit Office.

Geoffrey Johnson A man from Angus who was one of Britain’s most wanted tax fugitives and at the centre of a vast, multi-million pound tax fraud, has been deported from Dubai after being caught travelling with a fake British passport.

Fiona Buchanan In its recently published Banking Deals Review 2016/17, Shepherd and Wedderburn’s banking and finance practice has reported a strong twelve months of business. The past year has seen the firm’s finance lawyers' work on 144 deals worth £93.4 billion. Among the team’s clients in

Accountancy firm Chiene + Tait (C+T) has announced another expansion of their Inverness operation to support local businesses with the recruitment of Dean Clark who joins from ‘Big 4’ firm EY.

Britain’s finance leaders are getting gloomier about Brexit, according to a new UK-wide survey of top finance professionals conducted by the Chartered Accountancy body ICAS.

The shift to ‘pretirement’ – where people gradually scale back on work or change jobs altogether rather than stopping work entirely – has become the new retirement reality, according to the Prudential’s latest annual research.

Crawford Gillies Former Scottish Enterprise chairman Crawford Gillies has been appointed chair of whisky-maker Edrington Group.

Alan Gordon Alan Gordon, Principal Commercial Partner in the Glasgow North office of DM Hall Chartered Surveyors, addresses the effect of the land tax on pension transfers.

John Waterson Thirteen Scottish-based accountants have been named among ICAS’s 35 Chartered Accountants (CAs) under 35 for 2017.