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France Looks To Create Its Own Home Booking Platform

PYMNTS

This time, the French government said, it plans to team up with the country’s tourism industry to build an internet site whose ultimate goal is to grab customers away from the likes of Airbnb and Booking Holdings. Airbnb has been fighting with the French government over such issues as providing data to tax authorities.

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Digital Taxes, Big Tech In Regulatory Focus As 2020 Dawns

PYMNTS

As 2020 dawns, regulators are continuing to focus on taxes and possible anti-competitive behavior on the part of tech’s marquee names. tech firms, placing laws on the books that would restrict content offered by those companies. The initiative is potentially harmful to the market,” a spokesman said, as quoted in the Reporter. “It

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Albania Rolling Out E-Invoicing System To Ensure Tax Compliance

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Albania has announced it will implement a new online billing system to prevent businesses from circumventing tax payments and to boost revenue in the country, according to a report by Reuters. The minister said that 1,600 hotels on a booking site were not registered with the proper tax authorities.

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Biden corporate tax plan could earn EU and UK billions, study shows

TheGuardian

EU forecast to reap extra €50bn per year with UK expected to gain €200m from BP alone A proposal to be tabled by the US president, Joe Biden, at the upcoming G7 meeting for a 15% global corporate tax rate could reap the EU €50bn (£43bn) a year, and earn the UK nearly €200m extra alone from the British multinational BP, according to research.

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Bond Portfolio Trends: Fourth Quarter 2022

South State Correspondent

At present, we account for over 130 client portfolios with a combined book value of $13.96 tax-free, 6.5% tax-free, 6.5% The graph below tracks average portfolio tax-equivalent book yield, duration, and unrealized gain/(loss) as a percent of book value. taxable) to 19.6% (13.1% down from its year-ago level.

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Where The Tax Man Will Knock Louder Post-Wayfair — And Sooner

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The tax man looms across state and international borders, searching for digitally derived dollars due — scanning sites, platforms and even pop-up stores. For retailers and other firms, there’s the persistent lure of broadened reach into new markets. That means they must navigate tax collection nuances. Wayfair, Inc. ,

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Vacationing? Take along this book for accountants, valuation pros

Abrigo

Sageworks recently published Next-Level Accountants: Your guide to growing a firm of trusted advisors , a book that brings together many of the accounting and valuation professions’ top thought leaders to provide practical strategies to help firms continue to add value beyond their technical skills.

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