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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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Deep Dive: Wayfair’s Complex, Ongoing And Unexpected Effects On Retailers

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Wayfair’s case enabled cities and states to pass economic nexus laws that require out-of-state sellers to collect and remit taxes on local residents’ sales, and it permitted these jurisdictions to implement marketplace facilitator laws necessitating that eCommerce platforms collect and remit taxes on third-party merchants’ sales. .

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FinCEN AML/CTF Priorities Part 8: Drug Trafficking Organizations

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The most common is known as a trade-based money laundering (TBML) scheme. FICO explains: “In its simplest definition, TBML is the process of disguising the proceeds of crime and moving value (i.e., Financial institutions can expect additional scrutiny from regulators and auditors on EDD processes and high-risk customer monitoring.

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Beneficial Ownership & Due Diligence: Stepping Up Your Institution’s Information Collection Practices

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Since 2016, three serious document leaks have made international news and exposed the activity of powerful political elites or wealthy individuals who used shell companies to disguise the source of funds and avoid taxes. The definition of who is considered a beneficial owner is expanded. BSA Rules and Regulation. BSA Training.

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Why Is Qatar Banning Crypto?

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The financial center operates with its own legal, regulatory and tax infrastructure and traces its roots back to 2005. As reported by the Gulf Times , the Qatar Central Bank adopted new regulations in December that focus on combating money laundering and terrorist financing.

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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). FATCA requires many more classification types than CRS and the definitions vary for some categories (e.g., financial institutions).

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California Moves Forward On Effort To Bank Marijuana Businesses

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Drug Enforcement Administration’s rule, which has prevented federally regulated financial institutions from providing services to marijuana companies in places like California and other states in which the drug is legal. Hertzberg highlighted the ongoing struggles of legal marijuana operations in today’s conflicting legal climate.