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Charlotte Barbour Chartered Accountants Ireland and ICAS, the professional body for accountants headquartered in Scotland, have today issued a joint call to the Irish and UK governments to introduce legislation to alleviate the VAT burden on importers after Brexit.

Demand for permanent IT professionals in Scotland rose by 7 per cent year-on-year to April 2018 according to research from the Association of Professional Staffing Companies (APSCo).

Mark Tighe More than 7 in 10 Scottish companies (73 per cent) can been classified as ‘innovative’, according to new research by Catax.

Paul Mason Paul Mason, head of corporate finance at Chiene + Tait, talks us through what he says is a resurgent investment climate for SMEs

Royal Bank of Scotland subsidiary Ulster Bank is to start producing the only sterling bank notes of upright orientation.

Scottish Borders Council (SBC) is expected to call on the South of Scotland Enterprise Agency to help tackle the region’s low productivity, wages and growth and for it to be granted many of the same powers as Highlands and Islands Enterprise.

Insurance giant Aviva, which employs 2,500 staff across hubs in Perth and Bishopbriggs, has had to inform 50,000 of its customers that they were overcharged for their premiums and promised to refund them.

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.

Malcolm Hurlston The number of debt decrees registered against Scottish companies sharply rose during the first quarter of 2018, according to figures released today by Registry Trust.

An Edinburgh-based company has announced it has completed its transition to become Scotland’s latest employee-owned business, with 14 members of staff becoming majority owners.

The average price of a property in Scotland reached £146,009 in March 2018, an increase of 6.7 per cent on the previous year and an increase of 0.5 per cent when compared to the previous month.

Carol Flockhart Edinburgh-based Chartered Accountants Chiene + Tait has been nominated as a finalist in two categories at this year’s Scottish Accountancy Awards.

L-R: Sandy Manson, Chief Executive; Scott Dunbar, Partner; Gemma Spiers, Partner; Michael Murray, Partner; Andrew Shepherd, Chairman Scottish Accountancy and Business Advisory firm Johnston Carmichael has announced nine senior promotions, including three to partner level, as part of the firm’s gro

Nicola Sturgeon set up the commission in 2016 after the UK voted to leave the EU An independent Scotland can emulate the world’s 12 best performing small economies with economy-boosting policies, according to the SNP's long awaited growth commission report.

Jackie Waring, Eishel Quinn, Sir Richard Branson, Loral Quinn, Celia Hodgson and Pooja Jain (www.iangeorgesonphotography.co.uk) Representatives from three of Scotland’s leading startup businesses attended their first mentor session following Virgin StartUp’s inaugural search for Scotland’s sta