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Chris Anderson Edinburgh-based research and Development (R&D) tax credit experts, Jumpstart, have appointed Chris Anderson as their new sales director.

L-R Wynne Evans, compare of the GBEA Awards, opera singer and the famous GoCompare actor, Leah Hutcheon, CEO and founder of Appointedd and Aidan Hetherington, University of Edinburgh Business School. Leah Hutcheon, CEO and founder of Edinburgh-based online business appointment booking software firm

Aberdeen-based global payroll and tax compliance specialist activpayroll is celebrating this week after its Singapore office scooped its first industry award.

Sean McGinness Accountancy firm Saffery Champness says a report published last week by the Office for Tax Simplification (OTS) with the objective of identifying opportunities to simplify the UK VAT system shows that the Scottish tourism and events sector could benefit from some of the recommendation

The average price of a property in Scotland in September 2017 was £144,924 – an increase of 3.1 per cent on September in the previous year and a decrease of 1.3 per cent when compared to the previous month.

A fifth of law firms in the UK have been attacked by hackers, according to a new report published in the wake of the leaked Paradise Papers. The poll found distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks and Structured Query Language (SQL) injections to be the worst threats to law firms, though half o

The Scottish Legal Complaints Commission (SLCC), the independent body that deals with complaints about lawyers, has launched two new guides to help people working with a solicitor to write a will, or involved in an executry (carrying out the instructions in a will) avoid running into difficulties.

Howard Archer UK consumer price inflation has held at its highest level since April 2012, with the CPI rate holding at 3.0 per cent, latest figures for October show.

Donna Buchanan Barclays has announced two key appointments to its Scotland agricultural team as it continues to extend its on-the-ground support for the Scottish agriculture sector.

Moira Kelly Increasing income tax divergence between Scotland and the rest of the UK underscores the need for HMRC to maintain accurate, reliable and up to date information on the tax residence status of Scottish taxpayers, tax professionals have said.

Ian Macleod Distillers Limited (IMD), the independent family-owned whisky distiller, has secured £80 million in committed asset-based debt facilities from PNC Business Credit and Bank of Scotland, completing its refinancing and positioning the business for its next phase of growth.

Gemma Copestick, senior manager of employer partnerships at STEP with senior solicitor Jocelyn Gilda, partner Roddy Harrison and associate Ross Brown of BTO Solicitors’ tax planning, wills and estates team. Scottish law firm BTO Solicitors has been awarded Employer Partner accreditation by the STE

Gary Johnstone, Rhianne Stewart, Steven Fraser and Charlotte Stewart of AAB's Payroll and Employment Taxes team and their 'Best Service Provider' Award. Anderson Anderson & Brown’s global Payroll & Employment Taxes team has received the Service Provider Team Award at “The Rewards” 2017

Gordon McArthur Glasgow-based Beeks Financial Cloud Group has this week announced plans to list on the London Stock Exchange.

Liz Field PIMFA, the trade association for the personal investment management and financial advice sector in the UK, has become the latest organisations to sign HM Treasury’s Women in Finance Charter.