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Remote Seller Taxation: A Job For Tax Automation

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Wayfair Supreme Court decision continue to rattle online merchants, as three states (California, Louisiana and South Carolina) are now trying to collect eCommerce sales tax retroactively, as far back as five years. First, some context, for which we turn to Alaska. Aftershocks from the South Dakota v. Taxation With Representation.

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Deep Dive: How Buy Online, Pickup In Store Helps Retailers Compete Against Delivery Giants

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A significant share of Generation Z consumers — those aged 18 to 25 — are turning to buy online, pick up in store ( BOPIS ) purchasing models to meet their speed needs. Some stores are leveraging automation to make the click-and-collect experience faster as well as cheaper and easier to manage.

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Taking A Data-Driven Approach To Meeting CU Members’ Banking Needs

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This shift to primarily digital comes with some perks, such as easier transactions and more connectivity for CU members, but it also means an increase in online payment volume that represents an irresistible opportunity for fraudsters. Other CU organizations are also making moves to help ease the impact the virus has on their customers.

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A ‘Diaper’ By Any Other Tax Code: The Complexities Of Selling Across State Tax Laws

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An Illinois bill could aid both by making online marketplaces responsible for tax collection on the third-party sales facilitated through their platforms. Alaska is also trying to simplify tax collection, which can be particularly challenging in a location with no statewide sales tax, but more than 100 local tax codes.

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Sears Sparked By Amazon Effect As Tires Gain Ground

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It’s enough to think that the iconic Sears catalogue (which disappeared in 2011 due to an online sales shift and then reappeared last year amid nostalgia) is really, now, just a catalogue of top- and bottom-line maladies. Now the program is going nationwide and touches Hawaii and Alaska too.

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Ordering Pizza Looks Easy, But It’s Not — Here’s Why

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It had to choose between three platforms that had seen success at its 450 locations across California, Oregon, Washington, Arizona, Nevada, Alaska, Hawaii and two international markets. Some platforms were good at coupon management but couldn’t upsell from a coupon and just charge the customer the difference.

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The Business And Politics Of Pricing Trips To Cuba

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Despite the time between trips, Air Force One still managed to navigate smoothly enough to and from its destination, and remarks by both country’s leaders seemed to bode well for the complete normalization of diplomatic and trade relations in the very near future. official had done so in nearly 90 years. However, just because the U.S.

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