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Indonesia Reduces Import Tax Threshold To Protect Smaller Firms

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Indonesia has announced it’s going to reduce the threshold for taxing imported eCommerce consumer goods from $75 to $3, to help control the purchases of cheap foreign goods and help protect smaller Indonesian firms, according to a report by Reuters. They’ll be taxed at a rate of 32.5 million last year and 6.1 percent to 37.5

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Tax Reform Shows Early Signs Of SMB Bank Lending Impact

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tax reform led to much chatter and some confusion about exactly how changes would impact the nation’s small businesses (SMBs). Department of Treasury finalized rules that apply to SMBs on qualifying for a 20 percent tax deduction, with the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) applauding the initiative. percent rate.

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How Bookkeeping Capitalizes On Young, Digital-First SMBs

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An entrepreneur who opens a coffee shop or launches a FinTech startup isn’t in business to crunch numbers and file taxes. When small business owners take on the books themselves, the process requires significant manual data entry and number-crunching. “In retrospect, it was a big mistake.

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Bitcoin And The Bitter Tax Bite

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And lest you think changes in tax policy sow confusion only in the United States, think again. Bitcoin breeched a key psychological barrier on news that the South Korean government would tax income earned by virtual currency exchanges to the tune of 24.2 Kraken allows trading on margin, “but order books are thin,” he said.

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Interest, Auto Lending And Credit Cards Boost Capital One’s Q1

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Capital One logged stronger than expected results when it posted its earnings yesterday — the growth was driven largely by rising interest rates and an uptick in its largest lending categories, cars and cards. Capital One reported net income up 71 percent to $1.3 The competitive marketplace remains intense, but generally rational.

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Bankers: Who Has These Three Drivers of Value?

Jeff For Banks

Excess Capital 3. I defined excess capital as top quartile tangible equity to assets for the most recent year ended 2019. Interestingly I could find no material difference in price to tangible book and price to earnings ratios to the median of all of the Measured Banks. Santa Cruz traded at 112% of tangible book and 8x earnings.

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Despite Plenty Of Concerns, SMB Optimism Holds Fast

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Small business owners have a lot on their plates today and, depending on who one asks, top concerns range from taxes to late invoice payments. Luckily, research from Bank of America, Wells Fargo, Capital One and others often point to one thing: Despite the challenges, small businesses are optimistic.

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