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What The Streamlined Sales And Use Tax Agreement Means After Wayfair

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Businesses depend on the public services tax revenues pay for: roads that facilitate deliveries, courts where firms resolve legal disputes and regulators that help protect businesses from fraud. Even businesses eager to pay their share, however, may feel that complying with tax laws is complicated. .

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Beyond emissions: the interplay of macroprudential regulation and climate policy

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In a new working paper , we show that cap-and-trade schemes lead to lower volatility in GDP and financial variables, and result in reduced welfare costs of the business cycle , when compared to the more widely known carbon taxes. As a result, the respective macroeconomic effects of the two policies remain a point of debate.

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Foreign Tax Compliance Reporting — FATCA vs. CRS

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This article is from Michael Blicker , a senior consultant in FICO's compliance solutions group. You would think one system would be enough to manage foreign tax compliance. In 2010 the IRS (Internal Revenue Service) started to define the details of FATCA (Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act).

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Ensuring AML Programs Minimize Personal Liability

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LaFontaine failed to take sufficient action when presented with significant AML program deficiencies in the Bank’s SAR-monitoring system and the number of staff to fulfill the AML compliance role by his AMLO [AML Officer],” the document said. The regulators don’t care what your budget is,” Luttrell says. Get adequate resources.

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Allied Irish Banks Fined For Anti-Money Laundering Compliance Failures

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million fine by the Central Bank of Ireland due to compliance failures with anti-money laundering and terrorist financing rules. AIB said in a statement to Bloomberg that the settlement has to do with issues that happened between July 2010 and July 2014. Allied Irish Banks was hit with a $2.2

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Big Tech Compliance Tracker: France Fines Amazon And Google $164 Million; Australia Warns Facebook And Google To Pay News Firms 

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The Commission Nationale de l’Informatique et des Libertés (CNIL), the French data protection watchdog, has hit Amazon and Google with significant financial penalties for allegedly contravening regulations on the digital advertising trackers known as “cookies,” CNBC reported. Amazon was told to pay 35 million euros (approximately $42.5

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Financial Crime: Technology can Transform Compliance

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Visma Connect recently interviewed Jürgen Krieg, FICO's head of global compliance sales. In this excerpt from that article, Jürgen elaborates on the importance of compliance. . At FICO, I am responsible for planning and implementing growth strategies to develop new markets, and the expansion of our compliance business globally.