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Overstock To Pay Some Ohio Business Taxes With Bitcoin

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3) that it will pay a portion of its state business taxes in Ohio in bitcoin, becoming the first major U.S. company to pay state taxes in bitcoin. state to offer this way of paying for business taxes, noted Overstock in the press release. “We Overstock , the online retailer and blockchain company, announced Thursday (Jan.

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EU Wants US Tech Giants To Pay Revenue Tax

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Germany, France, Italy and Spain’s finance ministers have announced plans to tax tech multinationals, such as Amazon and Alphabet Inc./ billion in back taxes plus interest for “undue tax benefits” obtained from the Irish government from 2003 to 2014. That means a 10 percent tax would amount to $3.5

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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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Colorado’s Marijuana Industry Tops $6B

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The Colorado Department of Revenue has revealed that the state’s regulated marijuana industry sales have topped $6 billion since sales began in 2014. In addition, taxes generated by the industry grew by nearly 8 percent last year. To date, marijuana tax, license and fee revenue totals for Colorado are over $927 million.

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Dubai Creating $870M Free Trading Zone For eCommerce

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Having previously identified the region’s growing eCommerce market and given the traction witnessed by clients (going) online due to the pandemic, we are on track for the scheduled opening by the end of 2020.”. The proposal is part of The Smart Dubai program, which was launched in 2014 as a government initiative. The proposed 2.1

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Grocery Tracker: Food Markets’ Lag In Online Presence

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In other organic grocery news, former Sprouts Farmers Market CEO and current Chairman Doug Sanders is reportedly stepping down from his board position effective Feb. Elsewhere, a new tax is set to be levied on sugary beverages sold in restaurants and supermarkets in five more U.S. 20 of next year.

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How Clandestina (Literally) Snuck Into The US Market

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The funds from sales generally do not flow back to Cuba, instead paying for marketing, taxes and payment for future printings. as relations between the two nations began to improve in 2014. Frenzy manages printing, packing and shipping. The shirts themselves are made in Guatemala or Nicaragua.

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