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When One State’s Tax-Exempt Necessity Is Another’s High-Tax Discretionary Purchase

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Sales taxes empower governments to maintain critical public services, but they can also make medical essentials too expensive for those who need them. Campaigns against taxing obligatory items are spreading across the United States, forcing states to rethink their revenue generation decisions. Sales taxes’ price tags.

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Deep Dive: How Firms Can Avoid Costly Mistakes Come Tax Season

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businesses are likely already feeling tax season’s pressures. Filing is exhausting and complicated for individuals, and businesses experience those tax difficulties to a far greater degree. SMBs need to remain compliant with increasingly complex financial regulations. SMBs And Manual Tax Frustrations.

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Report: The Risky Business Of Navigating Online Sales Tax For Merchants

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Merchants working to expand and sell online in more markets must comply with each market’s local sales tax regulations, however, and that is an increasingly complicated task. Levy laws can vary widely between states, with one state taxing a product that another does not, for example. Around The Next-Gen Sales Tax World.

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Ensuring AML Programs Minimize Personal Liability

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Adequately staffed and risk-focused AML resources with good documentation are critical. Adequate, risk-focused AML resources are critical. Get adequate resources. The regulators don’t care what your budget is,” Luttrell says. Focus BSA/AML resources on risk. The recent $450,000 fine of U.S.

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Deep Dive: How FinTechs, FIs Can Arm Up Against Fraud

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Compliance failures are prevalent worldwide: Approximately $26 billion worth of fines were levied against banks for AML, KYC and sanctions noncompliance between 2008 and 2018. billion — 91 percent — of those penalties, while European regulators demanded $1.7 resources. A report found that the U.S. imposed a full $23.52

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The Need for a FinCEN Database

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This was long before the United States passed legislation in 2018 to unveil the secrecy of legal entity ownership. has continued to be under scrutiny by FATF for not having strong beneficial ownership regulations to prevent the use of shell companies for nefarious purposes. Is a national beneficial ownership database in the works?

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FinCEN announces $8 Million BSA Enforcement Action: The Resurrection of AML Penalties

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Millions of dollars in suspicious activity were not reported to FinCEN in a timely or accurate manner, including those connected to tax evasion, illegal gambling, money laundering, and other financial crimes. . Inadequate staffing: The lack of technological and human resources will result in deficiencies in an AML program.

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