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The Strange Spending Trends Around Sales Tax Holidays

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And though that figure fluctuates a bit from year to year — to an all time high point in 2013 when 52 percent of back-to-school shopping was done by early August, from a low point in 2012 when the figure slipped down to 40 percent — it tends to stay snuggly in the middle range. How Tax Holidays Work. That spend is big spend.

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Brazilian Retailer Magazine Luiza To Compete With Amazon

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The company is aiming to compete directly with Amazon , which launched its online Brazilian operations in 2012. Earlier this year, it was revealed that Amazon was getting ready to launch the fulfillment and delivery network it has been working on in Brazil, which was delayed because of logistics and a complex tax system.

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Amazon Ready To Launch Its Brazilian Fulfillment And Delivery Network

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Citing Amazon Country Manager Brazil Alex Szapiro, Reuters reported that the launch was delayed because of logistics and a complex tax system but now it plans to directly sell merchandise in 11 categories from more than 800 suppliers, including L’Oreal and Black & Decker. “Our

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3 top tech trends for public accountants to watch in 2017

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The thing about databases is they’re siloed and they’re generally centralized, and they’re owned and managed by someone who has unilateral editorial rights. Asgeirsson noted that cloud computing has helped turn client accounting services into a high-margin, high-growth line of business for many firms. Register here.)

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Wells’ Woes, Stripe’s Acquisition And North Korea’s New Hacking Groove

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We have a huge responsibility and fell short of our ideals for managing and providing oversight of the third-party vendor and our own operations,” Franklin R. Consulting firm Oliver Wyman prepared the document after reviewing insurance policies sold to the banking firm’s customers from January 2012 through July 2016.

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Credit Union Helps US Marijuana Businesses Put Down Roots

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This forces many operations to continue using cash. GFA, however, will offer basic financial tools to these businesses, including access to online banking, checking accounts, debit cards, cash management and payroll services.

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What Apple Didn’t Tell You Last Week

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Stockholm is the largest city in the small country of Sweden that’s famous for a few other things, too: charming and beautiful people, long dark winters, short but amazing summers, generous government and social benefits, and having one of the most progressive tax systems in the world. times the average Swedish income.

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