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Crypto Fails To Impress For Corporate Tax Payments

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to allow businesses to pay their corporate taxes in bitcoin. The Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance released a study last year, finding a sharp increase in the onboarding of new cryptocurrency users, rising from 18 million at the end of 2017 to 35 million at the end of 2018, Invest in Blockchain reports said.

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Hacker Tracker: The Evolving Threat Of Tax Fraud

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Earlier this year, the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration reported that there was a reduction in the number of fraudulent tax returns identified between 2013 and 2015. As of February, the number of mentions in 2017 so far was already over 40 percent of the 2016 total. What’s Next In Tax Fraud.

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Bitcoin Daily: China Construction Bank Grows Blockchain Platform; IRS Tax Forms Now Ask About Crypto

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In other news, the Marco Polo Network has announced that it has secured its first Russian-German import-export operations financing project. We launched our first distributed ledger technology in trade finance as early as 2017. The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) now has a question on crypto ownership on its 1040 income tax form.

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Indian Tech Startups Broke Funding Records In 2018

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In 2017, Indian startups got $10.4 These were OYO Rooms, a hospitality company, which raised $1 billion in September, and food delivery company Swiggy , which also secured a cool billion. Chinese funders were part of 43 funding rounds, which is up from 29 in 2017 and 25 the prior year. billion in funding – the most ever.

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GonzoBanker Awards 2017

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Seriously, sit back with a pocket flask of Pappy Van Winkle, smoke a cigar (or your combustible of choice if you live in Colorado, California, Washington, Oregon, Nevada, Main or Massachusetts) and enjoy the 2017 GonzoBanker Awards. Malls, retail stores and even some bank branch closings proliferated in 2017. Payments chaos.

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AltFin Shines As Investor Interest In B2B FinTech Continues

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Toward the start of 2018, analysts began to highlight the potential for venture capital (VC) to embrace the B2B business model. and India drove a surge in FinTech venture capital funding in 2017, and Accenture Financial Services Senior Managing Director Julian Skan pointed to the B2B business model as a significant presence in this trend.

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Tech Center: EU’s Capital City Grows Tech Reputation

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Belgium’s capital city is becoming known for more than just housing major international institutions like EU Parliament, EU Commission and NATO. The World Bank ranked Belgium as the seventeenth best country in which to do business in 2017, out of 190 regions. The region is also home to an active and fast-growing startup scene.

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