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Bitcoin Daily: Lukka Launches TurboTax For Crypto, Crypto Exchange Bottle Pay Shuts Down

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Cryptocurrency accounting firm Lukka has released a new service that will figure out the taxes on crypto assets, according to a report by CoinDesk. The new service comes on the heels of an announcement by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) that it was changing the guidelines for how taxes were calculated.

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Xero TaxTouch is Tinder for the Gig Economy’s Taxes

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The app, Xero TaxTouch aims to help self-employed workers track business expenses and manage their business-related tax deductions. In the Tinder-like user experience, freelancers separate their expenses by swiping right to file a business expense (see image on left) and swiping left to file a personal one.

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Can FinTech Walk The FinTalk?

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In this world, the only things certain are death and taxes. Additionally, LendingClub’s stock has lost 88 percent of its value since its 2014 IPO. Tech and a great user experience alone didn’t turn out to be a great way to sidestep the merits of using good, old-fashioned credit, risk and lending models to do it.

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A First Look at What’s Coming to the FinDEVr Stage this October

Fintech Labs Insights

Avalara will detail the Weird and Wacky World of Sales Tax. Did you know that sales-tax in the U.S. There are over 12,000 taxing jurisdictions covering millions of taxability rule combinations. Fidor Bank introduced community banking five years ago. is handled unlike any other place on the planet?

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242 Startup Failure Post-Mortems

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2014 Second Update (9/24/2014). 2014 First Update (6/3/2014). Original 50 Startup Failure Post-Mortems (1/20/2014). Background: Pearl was founded in 2014 by three ex-Apple iPod engineers, and hired dozens of other ex-Apple employees. 2017 Third Update (10/31/17). 2017 Second Update (6/9/17). Around 4 p.m.,

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From Alibaba to Zynga: 21 Of The Best VC Bets Of All Time And What We Can Learn From Them

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Facebook’s $22B acquisition of WhatsApp in 2014 was (and still is) the largest private acquisition of a VC-backed company ever. The previous year, King’s 2014 IPO was hotly anticipated. Within two years, it had 97 million active daily users. Semiconductor Manufacturing International (SMIC). Lending Club. Stemcentrx.

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