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US Treasury: Taxes On Digital Companies Are Discriminatory

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Treasury official said a French tax plan targeting American digital companies is discriminatory against American businesses. Treasury’s top international tax official, called the taxes “ill-conceived,” and said the better option was to go after tax reform internationally at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development ( OECD ).

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Japan’s Central Bank Chief Presses For Global Effort To Regulate Libra 

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Bank of Japan Head Haruhiko Kuroda spoke to business leaders in Osaka about the importance of having a coordinated global plan to regulate Libra and other cryptocurrencies, Reuters reported on Tuesday (Sept. He urged policymakers to ensure that the highest level of regulation is applied to such assets.

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Misinvoicing Costing Nations Billions, Warns UNCTAD

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For others, however, entire national economies can be affected. According to the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), that’s exactly what’s happening in some developing nations, in which invoice errors across Africa and South America are leading to the loss of up to two-thirds of commodity export value.

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NY Creates Cryptocurrency Task Force

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A New York State politician announced the creation of what he called the nation’s first cryptocurrency task force, to “study how to properly regulate, define and use” the currency, according to a Facebook post and reports.

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India: No Plans for State-Backed Crypto

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That caution extends to all manner of considerations in the realm, including the issuance of a state-backed cryptocurrency, and even the regulation of the digital currencies. Study and study and tread carefully, it seems. The fact that India is still studying the issue means that cryptos of course can and will be revisited.

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Sizzle Fizzle: Apps Sizzle, Startups Fizzle And Regulators Battle Bitcoin

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Fizzle of the Week: Cryptocurrency Regulation. The saga over bitcoin and its relationship to various regulators has become something of the payments answer to a romantic comedy. I can ask my friends who study abroad or travel there myself. Easy come, easy crypt-go, it seems. It’s not that big of a problem.”.

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Experts: US House Examines Legislative Actions To Combat Cybercriminals

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They spoke before the Subcommittee on National Security, International Development, and Monetary Policy Tuesday. Additionally, Kellerman called for a tax credit to encourage firms in the financial vertical to set aside 10 percent of their information technology (IT) budgets at a minimum toward cybersecurity.

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