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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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China To Increase Regulation Of Financial Holding Companies

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China is reportedly looking at new regulations that would impact Alibaba and Ant Financial in an effort to boost oversight of financial holding companies. This comes as Ant Financial, the Chinese FinTech giant and an affiliate of Alibaba Group, posted an earnings pre-tax loss of 2.4 Reuters cited two sources at the time.

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Ensuring AML Programs Minimize Personal Liability

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The bank’s Chief Compliance Officer also raised concerns, and in May 2014, the AML Officer ultimately bypassed LaFontaine and sent an email to the then-Chief Risk Officer regarding the cap on alerts, according to the enforcement action. The regulators don’t care what your budget is,” Luttrell says. Get adequate resources.

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Foreign Tax Compliance Reporting — FATCA vs. CRS

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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). Two aspects are of interest: possible additional tax revenue from foreign accounts and additional information on the customers.

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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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Fizzle Of The Week: The Cannabis Payments Conundrum

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states (and the District of Columbia) where marijuana has been legalized for sale in some capacity, it has thrown off a fairly large chunk of tax revenue in the last year. billion in taxes from legal cannabis companies last year, an amount of money that is undoubtedly a sizzle for the federal coffers.

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Corporate Treasurers, Treading Carefully Amid Regulatory Landmines

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The world of corporate treasury management has of late had to focus especially hard on the management portion of the job description. And with good reason, as a slew of regulations, spanning Dodd-Frank, Basel III and the money market Rule 2a-7 reform, have kept treasurers on their toes mastering the devils that lie within the details.

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