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Scotland holidays: how the Lowlands beat the famous Highlands

Wedging open the heavy doors, these granite boulders are hewn from Ailsa Craig, the island you can see from the windows of this mighty Scottish property. Inside, every corridor gives period drama; every staircase evokes…

British banks vulnerable after outsourcing AI to US tech giants, Bank of England finds

The three largest cloud computing providers account for 79 per cent of reported supplier relationships among financial services firms, according to a joint survey by the Bank and Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). More…

Pay Climate Change Levy

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Healey expected to set £15bn fiscal headroom with £5bn in tax hikes

Economists at major banks are anticipating Healey’s buffer against the main fiscal rule to shrink slightly. The borrowing rule states that day-to-day government spending should at least match projected tax receipts by…

China, Australia and the Pacific: How rugby is shaping soft power arms race

Amid the disruption at airports in Saudi Arabia, the limited access through the Strait of Hormuz and the nagging feeling that the world is on the verge of doom, soft power feels increasingly important. But no longer do…

‘No one saves the planet if it hits their pocket’: UK heat pump installers fear planned subsidy cuts

"Now, the conversation is completely different," he said. "I'm getting approached by them saying: 'Mrs Jones, my customer for 15 years, she's enquiring about a heat pump. What can you tell me?' The whole narrative has…

Guidance: List of approved professional organisations and learned societies (List 3)

Get emails about this page Documents Approved learned societies and professional organisations (List 3) HTML Details You can claim tax relief on: professional membership fees, if you must pay the fees to be able to do…

Pension reform means Brits don’t have to wait for billionaires to give them shares

It comes days after Anthropic, the frontier AI firm, announced plans for five per cent of its shares to be placed in a ‘public benefit’ fund. OpenAI, its competitor, reportedly floated a similar proposal in July.…

Possible tax hikes for LLPs in Budget may ‘distort’ the market and push firms overseas

Despite the professional services sector dodging tax hikes on LLPs in last year’s Budget, it remains unclear whether Chancellor John Healey will impose tax changes this time round, but Rosie Harris-Davison writes that…

ICAEW chief: Britain can’t build a better economy one Budget at a time

To achieve sustainable economic growth, the government must move beyond short-term Budget fixes and provide businesses with long-term certainty through tax stability and regulatory reform, says Alan Vallance “You can’t…