He was later accused of not passing the taxes to the government in 1707, the year of the abolition of the Scottish parliament.
He appears to be a descendent of George Home the king's main tax collector at the time of the Union of Crowns in 1606.
[citation needed] In his role as Provost he appears to then have become embroiled in the main Scottish money-making venture of the day (which centred on Edinburgh investors), the Company of Scotland and their ill-advised scheme to colonise the Isthmus of Darien in Panama, now known to history as the Darien Scheme.
[citation needed] In 1710 a "Bill of Information" was passed against Home asking him to give a full account of his transactions as tax-collector prior to the Act of Union 1707.
[3] His daughter Margaret Home married Patrick Lindsay-Crawford, 2nd Viscount Garnock.