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A ‘Diaper’ By Any Other Tax Code: The Complexities Of Selling Across State Tax Laws

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Merchants aiming to sell nationwide must pay attention to how their goods are treated by each state’s tax code. Items considered as exempt medical necessities in some states may be taxed at high rates in others, and businesses cannot afford to be caught by surprise. Around The Next-Gen Sales Tax Wor ld.

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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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Where The Tax Man Will Knock Louder Post-Wayfair — And Sooner

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The tax man looms across state and international borders, searching for digitally derived dollars due — scanning sites, platforms and even pop-up stores. Depending on how far afield they expand, those issues can span currencies, locally preferred payment methods and, increasingly, taxes. Last year, in the case of South Dakota v.

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NRF On The Case For Revising eCommerce Sales Tax Laws

PYMNTS

Wayfair ruling gave states and cities permission to tax remote sellers and online marketplaces based on their economic participation in the state, regardless of whether they had physical presences. Online retailers aren’t sitting still when faced with new taxes — and some are even fighting back in court.

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Brexit And Beyond: Crossing The International eCommerce Tax Rubicon

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But along the way, global digital sales also carry a host of regulatory hurdles when it comes to satisfying various tax regimes. As he told PYMNTS, challenges confront eCommerce firms that seek to understand the broad range of compliance and taxation frameworks that can differ greatly among the countries into which they sell.

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MTrac Launches Marijuana Payments Platform For Louisiana

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“Louisiana represents a special market for MTrac,” said the firm’s Chief Compliance Officer Jason LeBlanc in a statement, who added that MTrac’s payments platform makes Louisiana “the first state in the nation that will not be subjected to the cannabis industry’s all too common ‘cash only’ environment.”.

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Conducting an exam-proof AML/CFT risk assessment for credit unions

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This example is a situation with a "high" inherent risk and "strong" mitigating controls. This example is a situation with a "high" inherent risk and "strong" mitigating controls. In the example above, processing outgoing international wires is a "high" inherent risk, scoring 3 points, using a 1–3-point scale.

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