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What The Streamlined Sales And Use Tax Agreement Means After Wayfair

PYMNTS

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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Will eSports And Other Online Businesses Spike Digital Taxes?

PYMNTS

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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Big Tech Compliance Tracker: EU Aims To Have Big Tech Share Data With Smaller Competitors; Banks Oppose Potential Big Tech Banking Charters

PYMNTS

The General Court judgment raises important legal issues that are of relevance to the Commission in its application of State aid rules to tax planning cases,” Executive Vice President Margrethe Vestager said in the statement. University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School Professor Christopher Yoo had a differing opinion. 25 statement.

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Regulations Keeping SMEs On Their Toes In 2017, Says Paychex

PYMNTS

Tax reform takes the top spot of regulations SMEs are watching most closely, Paychex said in its release of the survey results Wednesday (Dec. According to analysts, a Republican-controlled Congress means tax reform may come early in the Trump administration, and plans for such action include cuts to business tax rates.

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Remembering 9/11 – A Pivotal Day for BSA/AML Professionals

Abrigo

The first plane hitting the Twin Towers, the second plane, the Pentagon, and then our heroes on Flight 93 crashing into a Pennsylvania field. BSA was intended to detect illicit activity through cash and monetary instruments to catch tax evaders using secret foreign bank accounts. soil. .

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Microsoft Marketing Vet Jeremy Korst Joins Avalara as New CMO

Fintech Labs Insights

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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Time Tried, Panic Tested. The Forgotten Story of the First National Bank of Keystone

Jeff For Banks

billion in assets, had 87 full-time equivalent employees, and accounted for two-thirds of the town's tax revenue. The Bank's Rise McConnell came to the bank in 1977 from McKeesport, Pennsylvania. Clearly, blue-suit regulators stood out. The bank, First National Bank of Keystone, was $1.1 The blue-suits were not well-received.