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Will eSports And Other Online Businesses Spike Digital Taxes?

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Historians and economists regularly look to tax policies to get a sense of what happened within a particular industry, society or country. No doubt the chronicles to come about the rise of the internet age and the spread of digital culture will include serious treatment of tax issues. Taxing Confusion. billion in 2022.”.

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Deep Dive: How The COVID-19 Virus Is Impacting The Online Gambling Industry

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Supreme Court decision allowed sports betting in 2018 and inspired 2019 laws that govern the fledging industry in 10 states and set guidelines such as how online casinos can operate and how sports betting would be taxed. This year was expected to be lucrative for online sports betting as it is the first since those regulations were created.

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Big Tech Compliance Tracker: EU Aims To Have Big Tech Share Data With Smaller Competitors; Banks Oppose Potential Big Tech Banking Charters

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Regulation. The General Court judgment raises important legal issues that are of relevance to the Commission in its application of State aid rules to tax planning cases,” Executive Vice President Margrethe Vestager said in the statement. Data Activist: Big Tech Not Following Transatlantic Data Transfer Regulations. 25 statement.

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Economic Nexus Laws’ Unexpected Impacts On Restricted Substance Retailers

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eCommerce sales tax laws are having unintended consequences in the tobacco industry. These laws were meant to make online sellers face sales tax requirements similar to those for retailers with on-the-ground locations, putting both types of businesses on equal footing. in 2017 had a 52.75

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Casino Reopenings Draw In Gamblers Despite Online Gaming Surges

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Pennsylvania reported similar numbers, with tax revenues from brick-and-mortar gambling dropping to $50.5 online gaming sites harness online payments, methods have to be licensed on a state-by-state basis, and transactions are subject to local regulations. And, even though revenue for its casinos dropped 61.7 And, while U.S.

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Remembering 9/11 – A Pivotal Day for BSA/AML Professionals

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The first plane hitting the Twin Towers, the second plane, the Pentagon, and then our heroes on Flight 93 crashing into a Pennsylvania field. BSA was intended to detect illicit activity through cash and monetary instruments to catch tax evaders using secret foreign bank accounts. BSA Rules and Regulation. Learn More. Learn More.

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Widening Borrower Protection’s Scope To SMBs

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As online lending platforms proliferate among the SMB borrowing community, however, experts warn that a lack of regulation means these companies rarely publicly reveal interest rates and fees. Last month, reports in The Wall Street Journal , citing Federal Reserve data, found that nearly one-third of U.S.

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