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Can South Dakota Move The Needle On A Federal Online Sales Tax?

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This is proving particularly true for more and more cash-strapped states that have spent years staring at soaring traffic for online retailers but little — if any — increases in the taxes reaped from this digital, transcontinental economy. Fields, chair of Morrison & Foerster LLP’s state and local tax group, told Bloomberg BNA.

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Progress Bank Launches Business Receipt Management From Sensibill

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Progress Bank , which serves companies in Alabama and the Florida panhandle, has rolled out Sensibill ’s online receipt management offering, with the aim of conserving time, increasing efficiencies and offering a better digital experience for clients, according to a Thursday (Nov. 12) announcement.

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Saving Main Street: Cities Pick Up The Recovery Role

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For example, Seattle announced that it will allow eligible businesses to defer business and occupation taxes and expand its Small Business Stabilization Fund. In Birmingham, Alabama a public private partnership is creating a fund to support small businesses through low-interest loans. And speed is of the essence.

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Hacker Tracker: DataVisor’s Global Insight Into Online Fraud

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For example, in addition to launching attacks from cloud services, they can also leverage botnets of compromised machines or IoT devices to make the attack operation appear distributed. Selfie Authentication Combats Tax Fraud. Their behaviors are changing as well. MorphoTrust’s eID works via mobile app.

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When Suds Go X-Border

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So far, Long has seen particular success with craft beers produced by Back Forty Beer Company in Gadsden, Alabama, and Dark Horse Brewing Co. Like with any cross-border endeavor, however, Long’s operations occasionally run into road blocks. in Marshall, Michigan. Brazil has] a whole craft beer movement. They love craft beer down there.

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Fizzle Of The Week: The Cannabis Payments Conundrum

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states (and the District of Columbia) where marijuana has been legalized for sale in some capacity, it has thrown off a fairly large chunk of tax revenue in the last year. billion in taxes from legal cannabis companies last year, an amount of money that is undoubtedly a sizzle for the federal coffers.

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