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Docks scheme to be standard bearer for tax-backed loan plan

Leith Docks in Edinburgh will this week be unveiled as the UK pioneer of an economic development scheme that will see the council borrow more than £84 million against future business-rate revenue.

Cabinet Finance Secretary John Swinney will use his speech at the Scottish Futures Trust (SFT) conference on Tuesday to give approval to the UK’s first tax increment financing (TIF) scheme – six months later than expected.