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21 Dec 2012
Building-mounted solar photovoltaic (PV) panels are to receive higher Government subsidies than ground-mounted projects, the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) has announced.
19 Dec 2012
A Glasgow-based waste company has received a record £200,000 fine after illegally burying hundreds of tonnes of controlled waste.
17 Dec 2012
Simplifications to the much-criticised Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC) will save participating businesses around £272 million over the life of the scheme, the Government has said.
11 Dec 2012
Changes to the stamp duty land tax (SDLT) sub-sale rules announced as part of the draft Finance Bill "will introduce complexity and uncertainty into commercial transactions" said John Christian, a property tax expert at Pinsent Masons, the law firm behind...
06 Dec 2012
The Government plans to introduce an exemption from empty property rates for newly-built commercial properties from October next year, it has announced.
05 Dec 2012
The Government will scrap a league table associated with a much-criticised carbon tax but has stopped short of giving details of its simplification plans for the Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC) scheme.
A "faster, more transparent" approach to using private finance to fund public infrastructure will see the Government take on the role of shareholder in future projects, the Chancellor has announced.
04 Dec 2012
The Scottish Government has published more details of its proposed replacement for stamp duty land tax (SDLT), which is due to come into force from April 2015.
29 Nov 2012
The Scottish Government is to follow England's lead and postpone the next round of revaluations for the purposes of calculating business rates until 2017, it has confirmed.
23 Nov 2012
Draft regulations which will implement more stringent European industrial emissions standards into Scottish law have been published.