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EU ‘Link Tax’ May Shutter Google News Abroad

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A “link tax” might mean the end of Google News in the EU. Richard Gingras, the search engine’s vice-president of news, said while “it’s not desirable to shut down services” the company isn’t happy with Brussels’ current proposal to charge a link tax for using news stories. In July, Google was hit with a $5.1

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Tax Season Helps Green Dot to Beat Q1 Revenue Estimates

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Direct deposits, new products and tax refunds helped Green Dot beat revenue expectations for the first quarter of 2018. Green Dot on Wednesday (May 9) reported that total operating revenue increased 25 percent year over year in the first quarter, to $315 million. Green Dot’s tax refund business also showed gains.

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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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After A Century, Barclays Steps Back From Africa Operations

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The decision to pare back operations in Africa — where the company will sell off much of its 62 percent ownership in publicly traded Barclays Africa — represents what The New York Times said was a step back from one of the key pillars of Barclays’ long-term strategy, right in lockstep with credit cards and investment banking.

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The Rise Of Faster Disbursements

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In addition, the problem of fraudulent tax returns could keep growing as digital processes come to the tax-filing-and-return space. Data: 2014: The year dessert delivery on-demand business SugarMoo was founded. 10 : The number of countries in the region in which Grab operates. All this, Today In Data.

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NYC Taxi Commission Accused Of $810 Million Fraud

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She’s alleging the city profited by that same amount selling medallions and by collecting a 5% tax on third-party transfers. A taxicab medallion is a numbered plate required to operate a yellow cab. The price of an individual taxi medallion sold at an auction skyrocketed 240 percent from 2004 to 2014, from $283,300 to $965,000.

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KPMG To Shutter UK Small Business Accounting Unit

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According to the publication, KPMG’s Small Business Accounting (SBA) service, which launched in 2014, will be closed in the U.K. ” The company added that the closure is part of KPMG’s efforts to refocus on core operations in the U.K., SBA operations. will remain unaffected. .” will remain unaffected.

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