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Cannabis Cos’ $4.7B In Cash-Based Taxes Overwhelm IRS

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million to a Virginia company to handle “large cash payments for processing cannabis federal taxes.”. billion in taxes last year on nearly $13 billion in revenue from legal cannabis companies. Most of these companies were forced to pay their federal taxes in cash because about 70 percent of all legal cannabis businesses are unbanked.

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Buying into AML risks in real estate

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In 2016 when the Panama Papers exposed an international network of offshore entities involved in tax evasion, fraud, and sanction evasion, some of which included real estate holdings, regulations began to change. The institutions are the ones shouldering the costs of compliance, examinations, and fines.

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Xero Partners With Gusto As Payroll Provider

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subscribers can now organize payroll entirely online, with all federal, state and local payroll taxes automatically paid and filed. million subscribers in more than 180 countries, while Gusto serves over 60,000 companies nationwide and has offices in San Francisco and Denver. Xero’s U.S. Xero has 1.4

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The Dawn Of A Cashless Global Economy?

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There are issues of transaction security, criminal elements, tax evasion, free flow of capital, access to goods and services and the ability to fully participate in the global economy. In Colorado alone, pot is expected to pour an estimated $120 million in tax revenue into state coffers this year.

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Fintech Fundings: 36 Companies Raise $480 Million Week Ending March 18

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million for its compliance tools. HQ: Denver, Colorado. Compliance tools for digital interactions. HQ: Denver, Colorado. Tags: Consumers, tax-savings, investing, personal finance, financial planning. It was another busy week for Finovate alums with six raising new funds: StreetShares raised $4.5 Qumram raised $2.5

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Fintech Fundings: 30 Companies Raised $330 Million First Week of August

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HQ: Denver, Colorado. Self-employment tax payments. Tags: SMB, payments, tax prep, accounting. Source: Crunchbase. Big data analytics for financial institutions. Latest round: $4 million. Total raised: $5 million. HQ: London, England, UK. Source: FT Partners. VaultInvesting. Retirement plans for small businesses. million Seed.