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As 2018 draws to an end and the New Year approaches, William Wallace, VAT Manager at French Duncan, considers what is happening in the ever-changing world of VAT Review of 2018Although there wasn’t much in the way of significant legislation introduced in 2018, the UK and European courts were a

Scotland is on track to see in excess of £2.5 billion invested in its commercial property market in 2018, according to Savills, with £2.485 billion of deals already completed and two weeks remaining until the end of the year. Volumes mark a 10 per cent increase on last year (£2.275

British car production fell by a substantial -19.6 per cent in November, with 129,030 units manufactured, according to figures released today by the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT).

Scottish food and drink companies are missing out on huge opportunities in the burgeoning Chinese market, according to a specialist digital agency which has just returned from exhibiting at one of the country’s biggest trade shows.

Brian Milne, partner with accountants and business advisers, French Duncan LLP, has been appointed as provisional lquidator of the Grameen Scotland Foundation, a charity with its headquarters at Glasgow Caledonian University. The business has closed with immediate effect with the loss of all four jo

EY has been appointed as administrators at Aberdeen-based mechanical and electrical installation firm Richard Irvin after the business collapsed with the loss of more than 100 jobs across Scotland. A total of 93 of the 107 jobs lost are at in Aberdeen itself but there are also redundancies in I

Glasgow-based Clydesdale Bank and Edinburgh-based Hampden & Co have been named among eleven banks that are to receive a share of the £275 million incentivised switching scheme for SME customers established under the terms of Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) bail out agreement. Banking Competit

Lanarkshire food producer R&W Scott Ltd has undergone a management buy out led by the firm’s MD John Easton along with fellow directors Stephen Currie and Michael Hewitt. The business and assets have been purchased from its parent company, Real Good Food plc in a deal worth £4 m

The Association of British Insurers has today published new analysis which shows that general insurance and long-term savings companies in the UK paid out £153 million every day in 2018, which throughout the year is more than the entire GDP of Croatia.

UK Retail sales jumped more than expected in November, helped by Black Friday promotions and stronger growth in sales of household goods, official data has revealed.

The average price of a home in Scotland continued its upward trend in October 2018 to reach £151,508, according to Registers of Scotland.

An estimated £41 million worth of rare whisky currently circulating in the secondary market, and present in existing collections, is counterfeit, experts have said, after a series of laboratory tests at the Scottish Universities Environmental Research Centre (SUERC) on 21 different bottles of

After the UK Government published its White Paper on immigration yesterday, the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) in Scotland has demanded an urgent rethink, warning that the proposals will have a disproportionate impact on firms north of the border.

With support of a £5 million funding package from Royal Bank of Scotland, Inveruie-based agriculture cooperative ANM Group, one of the largest producer-owned farming, food and finance business in Scotland, is expanding the Thainstone Business Park with the aim of becoming one of Aberdeen&rsqu

Demand for permanent professionals in Scotland rose by 38 per cent year-on-year to November 2018, according to research from the Association of Professional Staffing Companies (APSCo).