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The Strange Spending Trends Around Sales Tax Holidays

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billion , it is still a more valuable run of commerce activity than Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, Easter and Valentine’s Day combined — which is why state tax holidays placed at the end of July and beginning of August have become so very popular over the last two decades. How Tax Holidays Work.

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UK Casual Dining Firm The Restaurant Group Shutters 150 Eateries

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Europe’s The Restaurant Group (TRG), which operates over 650 restaurants and pubs across the country, is closing 150 eateries, Financial Times reported on Tuesday (Sept. million pre-tax loss for the first half of this year. Known for owning Frankie & Benny’s and Chiquito, the company is shuttering restaurants following an £87.7

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InComm Buys Amex’s Serve Prepaid Card Tech

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Other products that now fall under InComm’s purview as processor and program manager include business-to-business rewards and tax disbursement cards. . Scott Meyerhoff, the chief operating and financial officer of InComm, told Bloomberg his firm will keep track of balances and subtract funds as cards are used.

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The Problem With The ‘Micro-Business’ Label

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National Small Business Week has come and gone, but challenges of operating a small business are evergreen. And as the size of the company gets smaller, problems like cash flow management often get bigger. The Association for Enterprise Opportunity found that 92 percent of companies in the country operate with five or fewer people.

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Banking's Top 5 in Total Return to Shareholders: 2018 Edition

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This is clearly a turnaround situation, as the bank lost over $12 million in 2010, over 20% of its capital (ouch). But once they turned things around they took their deferred tax asset back onto their books and did three acquisition. The Bank operates five full service offices. It's non-performing assets to assets at that time.

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AltFin Shines As Investor Interest In B2B FinTech Continues

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and India drove a surge in FinTech venture capital funding in 2017, and Accenture Financial Services Senior Managing Director Julian Skan pointed to the B2B business model as a significant presence in this trend. Total venture capital across the global FinTech market between 2010 and 2017 hit a combined $97.7

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Payment Issues Take Center Stage In The Gig Economy

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The decision comes amid increasing pressure to revise how gig workers are paid, a trend that promises to shape how the companies operating in that world conduct business. The classification also affects payroll tax collection, worker compensation and unemployment benefits. The stakes attached to the gig economy are getting higher.

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