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Saving Main Street: Advocacy Groups Propose New Government Relief Programs

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The crisis is hardly over, but post-pandemic reality is setting in for Main Street retail. Patrice Frey, president and CEO of the National Main Street Center , is a proponent of supporting existing local economic development organizations like chambers of commerce, community foundations and Main Street programs.

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Why Timing Is Everything On Tax Day

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Tax Day for Americans is here, or at least it will be on Tuesday, April 17. This year is a bit of an unusual year as far as taxes are concerned, since April 15 actually falls on a Sunday. Back then, taxes weren’t due on April 15. Tax season used to be a month and a half shorter.

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Bitcoin Daily: South Korean Crypto Startup Steals $2.7M In Exit Scam; Venezuela Wants World’s Oil Market To Use Petro

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The Nassau Guardian reported that the framework will address many of the regulatory challenges the bank associates with crypto, including tax evasion, market volatility, fraudulent initial coin offerings (ICOs), and anti-money laundering policies.

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MTrac Launches Marijuana Payments Platform For Louisiana

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The platform will go live the same day the state’s legal medical marijuana market goes live, Tuesday (Aug. According to MTrac, its payments platform was developed in cooperation with “the main bank in Louisiana” that plans to provide bank account services to the state’s marijuana-related businesses. Global Payout Inc.

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Agora Services Debuts New Tools For SMB Banking

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There will also be receipt managing sub-accounts for tax purposes, and other such perks. We are the only one to be able to do it in a time to market as Agora is coming from this world,” Lapiro said, according to the release. Agora SMB will offer its users new options for unlimited plastic and virtual cards for employees.

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The Rapid Rise Of Social Credit Scores 

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Since roughly 2014, the Chinese government has been working on the system, which is designed to be a “method to perfect the socialist market economy system, accelerating and innovating social governance,” according to a State Council notice from 2014. million times last year for offenses such as unpaid taxes and fines.

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New money, old money

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The monetary squeeze was potentially disastrous for an economy already suffering from poor harvests, war-related disruption to trade and higher wartime taxes. The Bank of England’s directors reported to the General Court in August 1696 that ‘the present want of specie at this time is the common calamity of the whole nation’.

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