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Plans to build 300 new homes and a park and ride site in Monkton in Ayrshire will bring an essential economic boost to Ayrshire, according to Barratt Homes West Scotland. The project will support the economic ambitions of South Ayrshire Council and the Ayrshire Growth Deal.

Roddy Macleod will be one of the speakers at the forthcoming WS Society and STEP Scotland’s Private Client Conference. The conference is an online event which will be held on Thursday 8th October 2020 from 10am to 12 noon.

Thousands of firms across the UK may need to establish EU offices if they want to export goods to European markets, according to trade consultants Blick Rothenberg.  EU and UK law will require businesses to have a physical presence in Europe so they can be contacted directly if there are a

The government of the British Virgin Islands has officially committed to introducing public registers of the real ownership for companies incorporated in the territory. The announcement comes after years of tax evasion and money laundering scandals in which shell companies incorporated in the Britis

The Confederation of British Industry (CBI), alongside companies including Deloitte, Aviva, Brunswick, and Microsoft, is working to launch Change the Race Ratio – a campaign to increase racial and ethnic participation in British businesses.

A rare first edition Harry Potter book is set to fetch £50,000 at an auction in Staffordshire. 

EY has strengthened its leadership in Scotland with three internal partner promotions, as Julie Cavin and Nicola McIntyre, both in the audit service line and Iain Wintour in tax bring the partner total in Scotland to 33. Ms Cavin and Ms McIntyre's promotions have also brought the numb

MHA Henderson Loggie has announced the appointment of three new partners with Shona Campbell, David Archibald and David Taylor, previously directors with the firm, taking up their new partnership roles from today. Since joining MHA Henderson Loggie two years ago from KPMG, Shona Campbell&n

Partners at Deloitte are to be hit with a 17% pay cut after revenue growth dropped during the coronavirus pandemic. All 709 equity partners of Deloitte’s UK operation will receive an average payment of £731,000 for the year to the end of May 2020, a drop from a record £882,000 in t

Partners at Deloitte are to be hit with a 17% pay cut after revenue growth dropped during the coronavirus pandemic. All 709 equity partners of Deloitte’s UK operation will receive an average payment of £731,000 for the year to the end of May 2020, a drop from a record £882,000 in t

The use of technology and the adoption of digital innovation within Scottish businesses has accelerated at an extraordinary level in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new report by Addleshaw Goddard in partnership with the University of Strathclyde’s Fraser of Allander Institut

Scotland has seen another rise in R&D (research and development) tax credit claims, according to statistics released by HMRC yesterday. The latest 2018-19 figures show Scottish companies made a total of 2,925 claims, up from 2,210 made at this time last year. There were 2,405 successful R&D

Gillian Maclellan, partner at international law firm CMS, discusses the use of tracking technology to monitor employees working from home.  As employers across the UK now look at another sustained period of their workforce working from home, we are hearing tales of some using tracking technolog

The number of female ISA subscribers is continuing to fall sharply despite a surge in the number of younger women investing into stocks and shares ISAs, analysis of official HMRC data by Scottish Friendly has found. The latest figures show that between 2016-17 and 2017-18 the number of female ISA su

Edinburgh-based Rockifi, a new global streaming service, has launched today aiming to capture a significant share of the worldwide hard rock and heavy metal music market, which is worth upwards of £19 billion.  Rockifi offers the only dedicated streaming platform for fans and artists