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How Pilot Is Innovating Corporate Taxes For Millennial-Run Businesses

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Tax season frustrations can blossom into real financial problems, especially when refunds are paper checks sent through postal mail. Recent research finds that 67 percent of millennial business owners operate independent companies rather than franchises. Proper tax education is critical to any business’s future, Daher said.

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Crypto Fails To Impress For Corporate Tax Payments

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to allow businesses to pay their corporate taxes in bitcoin. The Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance released a study last year, finding a sharp increase in the onboarding of new cryptocurrency users, rising from 18 million at the end of 2017 to 35 million at the end of 2018, Invest in Blockchain reports said.

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Bitcoin Daily: China Construction Bank Grows Blockchain Platform; IRS Tax Forms Now Ask About Crypto

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In other news, the Marco Polo Network has announced that it has secured its first Russian-German import-export operations financing project. We launched our first distributed ledger technology in trade finance as early as 2017. The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) now has a question on crypto ownership on its 1040 income tax form.

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Retailers Win In Stimulus Bill

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While most of the focus has been on the $1,200 payout to consumers, retailers will also gain from the bill’s revision of two key points from the 2017 tax bill. The first change prevented retailers and restaurants from depreciating building improvements within a tax year. In the U.K.,

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3 top tech trends for public accountants to watch in 2017

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Ellison-Taylor, chairman of the AICPA , recently noted that technology tops her list of the most important trends shaping 2017 because it will drive so many of the profession’s opportunities and challenges in the year ahead. Kimberley N. But how are accountants supposed to keep up with all of the technological trends ? Register here.)

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Fake ID Docs Sold on Websites Targeted by Feds

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The federal agency said it shut down websites where consumers could buy “fake financial and other documents – such as pay stubs, income tax forms, and medical statements – which can be used to facilitate identity theft, tax fraud, and other crimes,” according to an FTC statement. Simmons was ordered to pay $15,000.

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GonzoBanker Awards 2017

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Seriously, sit back with a pocket flask of Pappy Van Winkle, smoke a cigar (or your combustible of choice if you live in Colorado, California, Washington, Oregon, Nevada, Main or Massachusetts) and enjoy the 2017 GonzoBanker Awards. Malls, retail stores and even some bank branch closings proliferated in 2017. Payments chaos.