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NYC Taxi Commission Accused Of $810 Million Fraud

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She’s alleging the city profited by that same amount selling medallions and by collecting a 5% tax on third-party transfers. James is alleging that the TLC had a hand in inflating the price of thousands of medallions over a 14-year period, 2004 to 2017, sometimes by more than 200 percent.

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London’s Dirty Little (Money Laundering) Secret

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office were facilitating tax evasion and money laundering. regulators didn’t seem inclined to take any real steps toward looking into the claims about BSI’s role in tax evasion at the time. A former employee at Swiss bank BSI, who worked at the bank’s U.K. But as the FT’s reports showed, U.K.

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Why Authentication And Real-Time Tracking Are Key To API Security

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The share of B2B transactions conducted via check has fallen 50 percent since 2004 and hit an all-time low of 42 percent last September, for example. B2B payments traditionally involved tedious manual bookkeeping and companies had to ensure they were deposited correctly and accounted for on their taxes. API security.

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Mexico’s B2B Payments Opportunity As A Global eInvoice Leader

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Mexico’s eInvoicing requirements began back in 2004, when its tax authority, the SAT, first developed its eInvoicing legal framework. Since then, the mandate has been expanded, and today, all invoices, including those in B2B transactions, must be electronic.

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African Dictator’s Son Stands Trial For Money Laundering

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Forbes reported that Obiang has been accused by prosecutors of siphoning funds from a tax on sales of wood — levied during his time as agriculture minister from between 2004 and 2011 — to his own bank accounts.

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Fools Rush In: 37 Of The Worst Corporate M&A Flops

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Lycos simply couldn’t compete with better offerings from the likes of Google, and in 2004, Terra sold Lycos for a meager $95M. By 2004, Vivendi was burdened with debt and sold 80% of Vivendi-Universal Studios to GE. stock-for-stock deal. AOL and Time Warner. Date: February 11, 2000. Price: $164B.

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Killing The I-Bank: The Disruption Of Investment Banking

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Unity Software, a software platform aimed at video-game developers, pursued a bidding-based approach to its IPO in September 2020, similar to the process used by Google when the search giant went public in 2004. However, interest in ICOs cooled after a number of fraud allegations and a crackdown by the SEC. In 2017, startups raised $5.6B