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California Expects IPO Tax Windfall

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California is gearing up to get a tax windfall from all the initial public offerings of California companies slated for this year. According to a report in The Wall Street Journal , close to 10 percent of the tax revenue for the state in the coming fiscal year will come from capital gains. billion in tax revenue.

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JD Sports Purchases California-Based Shoe Palace

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Overall cash consideration for the purchase of the company is $325 million, which is subject to “customary cash/debt and working capital adjustments,” of which $100 million has been deferred and will be paid on different dates over the 12 months to come. California-based Shoe Palace was started in 1993 by the Mersho family.

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Bitcoin Daily: S. Korea Eyes Crypto Capital Gains Tax; Crypto Lawyers See Rise In Demand

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South Korean crypto users might soon see 20 percent taxes on their currency, according to Cointelgraph. ” But Sung Tae-yoon , an economist with Yonsei University, warned that taxing cryptocurrencies could slow the country’s tech markets. And, the U.S.

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Lyft IPO Oversubscribed, Could Reap $1B In CA Taxes

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California could receive “$1 billion or more” from the capital gains taxes on the IPO’s stock sales. “We If you’re coming with a $19 billion valuation, you’re talking about [a state income tax rate of] 13.3 Lyft and its investors aren’t the only ones that will benefit from the IPO. percent for the millionaires,” he added.

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Employee Or Contractor? California Freight Enters The Worker Classification Debate

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It’s a debate with significant implications for lawmakers in areas like minimum wage and tax policy. Labor Department classified these gig workers not as employees, but as contractors, in a case that enabled an unnamed company hiring these gig workers to not have to pay federal minimum wage, overtime or Social Security taxes.

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Jamie Dimon thinks Trump was ‘kind of right’ about a lot of things. What? | Robert Reich

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Tax reform worked. Robert Reich, a former US secretary of labor, is a professor of public policy at the University of California, Berkeley, and the author of Saving Capitalism: For the Many, Not the Few and The Common Good. Trump “was kind of right about Nato, kind of right on immigration. He grew the economy quite well.

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Cryptocurrency Tax Management Software Provider CoinTracker Valuation Climbs To $1.3B. CoinTracker Competitors Include TaxBit, ZenLedger, And CryptoTrader.Tax.

CB Insights

CoinTracker , a cryptocurrency tax management software provider, has raised $100M in a Series A. The round drew participation from Accel, Coinbase Ventures, General Catalyst, Y Combinator, and Initialized Capital, among others. California-based CoinTracker enables crypto investors to track portfolio performance and taxes.

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