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Big Tech Compliance Tracker: Amazon Looks To Increase Fees With Digital Tax In Spain; Google Might Make Search Inaccessible In Australia

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Amazon Plans to Raise Fees for Companies in Wake of New Digital Tax in Spain . After Spain’s government levied a new digital tax, Amazon plans to increase fees by 3 percent starting in April for Spanish firms harnessing its platform, Reuters reported. Google Raises Specter of Making Search Inaccessible in Australia.

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Confronting Wayfair’s Unanswered Questions

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tax laws, and some businesses and public sector stakeholders are now pushing back. The case ushered in a wave of state- and municipality-issued economic nexus laws that tax remote sellers based on economic activity rather than physical presence. States have long debated how to write these definitions. The 2018 South Dakota v.

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MTrac Launches Marijuana Payments Platform For Louisiana

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“Louisiana represents a special market for MTrac,” said the firm’s Chief Compliance Officer Jason LeBlanc in a statement, who added that MTrac’s payments platform makes Louisiana “the first state in the nation that will not be subjected to the cannabis industry’s all too common ‘cash only’ environment.”.

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Offering advisory services: Piecemeal or holistic approach?

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“The challenge with the piecemeal approach right now is that every project becomes a new and different project,” says Donny Shimamoto, CPA.CITP, CGMA, founder of advisory-focused CPA firm IntrapriseTechKnowlogies LLC in Honolulu and a nationally recognized accounting technology thought leader. “If

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FinCEN identifies AML/CFT “priorities” for financial institutions

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The Priorities have been much-anticipated because, under the AML Act, regulators will review and examine financial institutions in part according to how their AML/CFT compliance programs incorporate and further the Priorities, “as appropriate.”.

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What The Streamlined Sales And Use Tax Agreement Means After Wayfair

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Businesses depend on the public services tax revenues pay for: roads that facilitate deliveries, courts where firms resolve legal disputes and regulators that help protect businesses from fraud. Even businesses eager to pay their share, however, may feel that complying with tax laws is complicated. . SSUTA’s Role in South Dakota v.

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New Name, New Funding For SME Payments Firm Align Commerce

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Marwan Forzley, CEO of cross-border SME B2B payments firm Align Commerce, said that figuring out how to make international payments should be small businesses’ first step to going global. The Series B round was led by National Australia Bank Ventures, while GV (formerly known as Google Ventures) and SBI Investment Co. Today (Mar.

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