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Colorado’s Marijuana Industry Tops $6B

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The Colorado Department of Revenue has revealed that the state’s regulated marijuana industry sales have topped $6 billion since sales began in 2014. In addition, taxes generated by the industry grew by nearly 8 percent last year. Last year, regulated marijuana sales in Colorado were nearly $1.55

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Passage Of SAFE Banking Act Gives Cannabis Businesses Access To Banking

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The bill was sponsored by Congressmen Ed Perlmutter of Colorado, Denny Heck of Washington, Steve Stivers of Ohio and Warren Davidson of Ohio, all members of the House Financial Services Committee. The legislation aims to ensure that state-authorized and regulated cannabis businesses are not forced to operate with cash only.

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Can South Dakota Move The Needle On A Federal Online Sales Tax?

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This is proving particularly true for more and more cash-strapped states that have spent years staring at soaring traffic for online retailers but little — if any — increases in the taxes reaped from this digital, transcontinental economy. Fields, chair of Morrison & Foerster LLP’s state and local tax group, told Bloomberg BNA.

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Credit Union Helps US Marijuana Businesses Put Down Roots

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Massachusetts joins a handful of states, including Colorado, Washington and Maine, that have taken steps to legalize recreational marijuana. This forces many operations to continue using cash. They don’t want to spend half their day moving money around and worrying about their employees getting paid in cash.”.

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The banks serving active duty personnel

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Community banks operate on a majority of the country’s military installations. Community banks comprise more than two-thirds of the 66 banks operating on U.S. Noemi Gallardo and Larry Wilson of First Arkansas Bank and Trust pose in front of a C-130 display plane at Little Rock Air Force Base, where the bank operates a branch.

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Taking Your Coffee With Sugar, Milk And Blockchain?

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The company operates on a “one-for-one” business model, which means that it donates one pair of shoes or glasses to communities in third-world countries for every pair sold to a first-world consumer. After all, meeting fair-trade regulations and standards is all about making sure that the right hands get rightfully paid for their work.

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Fizzle Of The Week: The Cannabis Payments Conundrum

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states (and the District of Columbia) where marijuana has been legalized for sale in some capacity, it has thrown off a fairly large chunk of tax revenue in the last year. billion in taxes from legal cannabis companies last year, an amount of money that is undoubtedly a sizzle for the federal coffers.

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