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Will eSports And Other Online Businesses Spike Digital Taxes?

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Historians and economists regularly look to tax policies to get a sense of what happened within a particular industry, society or country. No doubt the chronicles to come about the rise of the internet age and the spread of digital culture will include serious treatment of tax issues. Taxing Confusion. billion in 2022.”.

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Major Retailers Brace For Gift Card Fraud

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The moves were announced by the attorneys general of Pennsylvania and New York, Reuters reported. With the new policies, changes include lowering the transaction limits on the sale of store-branded gift cards. Fraudsters reportedly buy third-party gift cards from brands like Steam, Google Play and iTunes with retail gift cards.

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Economic Nexus Laws’ Unexpected Impacts On Restricted Substance Retailers

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eCommerce sales tax laws are having unintended consequences in the tobacco industry. These laws were meant to make online sellers face sales tax requirements similar to those for retailers with on-the-ground locations, putting both types of businesses on equal footing. in 2017 had a 52.75

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COVID Retail Update: Mall Group Asks For Bailout

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s Hudson Yards in New York City, Triple Five Group’s Mall of America in Minnesota and the King of Prussia in Pennsylvania. generates nearly $400 billion of state and local taxes, McGee said. Some malls have already shut down, including Paramus Park and Westfield Garden State Plaza in New Jersey, Related Co.’s How to cope?

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Radial Fights Fraud, Releases Annual Holiday Fraud Index

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With headquarters in King Of Prussia, Pennsylvania, Radial provides major brands and merchants with fraud, payments and tax solutions, as well as a host of other commerce technology solutions. “We Fraud is growing at 30 percent year over year,” said KC Fox, head of payments, tax and fraud at Radial. We are a true partner.

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Microsoft Marketing Vet Jeremy Korst Joins Avalara as New CMO

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Starting in 2017 former Microsoft executive Jeremy Korst will be the man driving the message at tax compliance innovator and FinDEVr alum , Avalara. He has a BA in Economics, Politics, and Government from the University of Puget Sound, and a MBA from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.

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Food Stamps Online: The $75B Grocery Game-Changer?

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Low-income consumers are far more likely to find it difficult to secure mainstream credit sources and are thus much more likely to make use of high-cost alternative credit sources when financial emergencies hit, often in the form of a payday, title, tax refund anticipation or installment loan. And that’s just accessing money itself.

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