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English TV health guru Jason Vale is one of the new clients who have helped to drive Midlothian glamping pod company Armadilla to reach a turnover of £2 million. Mr Vale has ordered pods from the company to be housed at one of his resorts in Portugal.

Jason Collins, partner at Pinsent Masons, looks at efforts to ensure tech giants pay their taxes HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) believes that US-based multinational businesses may have underpaid £4.6 billion of UK tax last year, up 35 per cent from £3.4bn in 2017.Figures obtai

Edinburgh-based accountancy firm Steedman has added to its expertise in the blockchain and digital asset sphere by becoming a member of industry trade body CryptoUK. These moves will enable Steedman to contribute to the development of fit-for-purpose regulatory frameworks and to access and liai

Standard Life Investments Property Income Trust Limited, a fund managed by Standard Life Aberdeen (SLA), has confirmed unaudited Net Asset Value (NAV) per ordinary share of 88.3p, marking an increase of 3.5% for the first quarter of 2021. This has resulted in a NAV total return, including dividends,

HBOS has reigned supreme in Bestinvest's hall of shame Spot the Dog report which lists the "bad mutts" of the fund management industry. The report uses statistical fund performance data to identify funds that have consistently performed badly compared to their benchmark.

Retail stores in Scotland are closing at a faster rate than Great Britain as a whole, largely because it spent longer in lockdown, according to new research by PwC and the Local Data Company (LDC). A total of 780 chain stores closed in the first half of 2021 compared with just 344 openings, a net lo

Standard Life Investments Property Income Trust (SLIPIT) has acquired 1,447 hectares of upland rough grazing and open moorland in the Cairngorm national park for £7.5 million. The site, acquired as part of the company's carbon strategy, supports 956 hectares for planting with natural broadleaf

Standard Life Investments Property Income Trust, a fund managed by Aberdeen Standard Investments (ASI), has posted NAV total return of 10.2.% in the six months to 30 June 2021. This is compared to 9.0% in the first half of 2020.

Aberdeen-based global payroll and employee mobility specialist activpayroll has been recognised at the UKG (Ultimate Kronos Group) Partner Awards. The company was named "Partner of the Year – HCM" at a special virtual awards ceremony hosted by UKG, a global provider of HCM, payroll, HR service

Standard Life Investments Property Income Trust Limited (SLI), a company managed by abrdn, has posted its full annual results for the year ended 31 December 2021. The company reported financial resources of £50 million as at 31 December 2021 (2020: £55 million) available for investment t

New PwC analysis has revealed that Scotland’s energy sector has a critical role to play in helping meet the emerging green energy skills gap, with the creation of green jobs related to energy transition north of the border more than one-and-a-half times the national average. The Energy Transit

Aberdeen-headquartered payroll and employee mobility specialist activpayroll has seen its revenue rise by 27%, reaching £35.7 million in 2020/21. Serving over 1200 customers in 154 countries across the globe, activpayroll offers a range of services under the three key pillars of Global Payroll

Scotland is leading the way in the creation of green jobs in the UK, according to new data from PwC. The fourth iteration of PwC’s Green Jobs Barometer sees Scotland take the top spot again for the highest proportion of green job adverts of any of the UK’s nations and regions, at 5.6%.

PwC has welcomed 80 new student recruits as they join the firm in Scotland, taking up roles at the firm’s Glasgow, Edinburgh and Aberdeen offices. Of the new intake, the majority (39) will join the office in the capital, with 35 based in Glasgow and six in Aberdeen – with 80% of the new

As the UK confronts a highly volatile and uncertain inflationary outlook, PwC has predicted growth in Scotland will sit approximately 0.5 percentage points behind the UK average this year and, like the rest of the country, will be highly dependent on gas prices. The two possible scenarios outlined i