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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.

Mike Timmins and Cara Heaney EY has appointed two equity Partners in Scotland, bringing the total number of partners at the firm dedicated to the Scottish market to 34.

Tom MacLennan Hamilton Burns employees are expected to receive full wages, holiday pay and pension contributions owed to them after the firm ceased trading at the end of May.

Ross McEwan Royal Bank of Scotland has reached a settlement with US authorities to resolve the scandal over its role in the sale of so-called “toxic” sub-prime mortgages that played a major role in the onset of the financial crisis of 2008.