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Today In Payments: Apple Parts Maker Foxconn Back To Work In China; Two Chinese Nationals Laundered $100M In Crypto

PYMNTS

Some have pointed to a similar attempt by H&R Block, when it tried to purchase another do-it-yourself tax software company in 2011 but was blocked by regulators. Several legal experts have said that TurboTax’s deal to buy personal finance site Credit Karma for $7.1 billion raises serious antitrust concerns.

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FICO Changes Reporting Data

PYMNTS

Good news is ahead for those suffering from low FICO scores — according to reports this morning, civil judgements and tax liens will by and large be coming off of consumer credit reports. The change will apply to new tax lien and civil judgment data that are added to credit reports as well as existing data on the reports.

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How SMB FinTech Firms Boost Data Sharing Without Open Banking

PYMNTS

Les Whiting, chief financial services officer at small business FinServ firm Wave , explained in a recent interview with PYMNTS that the M&A strategy enables service providers to facilitate the data connectivity that small business owners need to manage finances. “For us it was, do we build this ourselves, or do we acquire?

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Xero TaxTouch is Tinder for the Gig Economy’s Taxes

Fintech Labs Insights

The app, Xero TaxTouch aims to help self-employed workers track business expenses and manage their business-related tax deductions. It also tracks estimated taxes and generates a report to help users prepare a Schedule C document to send to their Xero tax accounting professional (if they have one).

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Rebounding from the Downturn

Independent Banker

There were some very difficult days along the way, including a complete change in our bank’s executive management team and essentially rethinking how we executed our business from the ground up. million valuation allowance on the bank’s deferred tax assets.

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Guest Post: Financial Markets and Economic Update by Dorothy Jaworski

Jeff For Banks

I along with countless other managers and investors were finally happy. in 2018, but about equal to the average growth since 2011. The impact of the tax cuts has faded. However, don’t count on the usual spending boost from personal tax refunds as they are down by over $6 billion from this time last year. Yes, M2 matters.

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Guest Post: Fourth Quarter Economic Update by Dorothy Jaworski

Jeff For Banks

Then, just as rates hit these lows, Ben Bernanke and the Federal Reserve announced another gigantic quantitative easing program, called “QE2” by the markets, where they stated they will purchase $600 billion in Treasuries through mid year 2011. Combined these tax breaks can provide up to 0.5% What About 2011? So what happened?