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NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Isaacson, a lawyer, Bowdoin College professor, senior partner at Brann & Isaacson and Data & Marketing Association tax counsel, argued Wayfair’s side in the precedent-setting Supreme Court case that has small businesses struggling. is the only country that has such a complex consumption tax system.” .

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OCTOBER 19, 2020

Here’s the latest news from Amazon and the technology industry, which is coming under increasing scrutiny from regulatory watchdogs, trade organizations and politicians globally. OECD’s Tax Reform To Be Presented To G20. The OECD forecasted that the measures could bring in a further $100 billion in business tax revenues each year. .

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FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Business information firm Thomson Reuters is teaming up with global tax company KPMG to offer Australia businesses a solution to deal with fringe benefits taxes (FBT), Thomson Reuters announced Thursday (Feb. The ONESOURCE FBT software automates the tax calculations necessary to file an FBT return. “Our

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NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Here’s the latest news from the technology industry, which is coming under increasing scrutiny from governments and consumers around the world. Tencent Holdings President Martin Lau said further regulations are needed in China to mirror a “new reality.”. Group Seeks to Block Maryland Online Advertising Tax. Regulation.

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JANUARY 22, 2021

Amazon is planning to hike fees for Spanish companies using its platform by 3 percent from April, according to a Reuters report, since the country's government imposed a new digital tax. A spokesperson for Amazon said the so-called " Google tax" would end up hitting users. Spain began charging the fee on Jan.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Here’s the latest news for Big Tech’s Google , Amazon , Apple and Facebook , which are coming under increasing scrutiny from legislators and regulators the world over. Big Tech Updates Fees to Reflect UK Digital Services Tax. Apple announced upcoming tax changes for apps and in-app purchases to include tax law changes in the U.K.

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JANUARY 11, 2021

Here’s the latest news from the technology industry, which is coming under increasing global scrutiny from governments around the world. US Trade Representative: India, Italy, Turkey Digital Taxes Discriminates Against US Firms. US Trade Representative Halts Plan To Tax $1.3 The USTR is suspending an initiative to tax $1.3

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FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Amazon and Flipkart are pushing back against a proposed Indian tax on the online eCommerce market, saying it will stymie growth in the industry, according to a report by Reuters. . The tax would be 1 percent on every sale made by a seller on the eCommerce platforms, and it would take effect in April if approved by the country’s parliament.

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JULY 7, 2020

The Southeast Asian country’s national tax office announced it will impose a 10 percent value-added tax (VAT) on foreign global technology companies as the nation looks for ways to defray the costs of battling the economic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, Reuters reported. The country’s total budget for 2020 is $177.6

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JULY 31, 2019

Albania has announced it will implement a new online billing system to prevent businesses from circumventing tax payments and to boost revenue in the country, according to a report by Reuters. The minister said that 1,600 hotels on a booking site were not registered with the proper tax authorities.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Wayfair Supreme Court decision continue to rattle online merchants, as three states (California, Louisiana and South Carolina) are now trying to collect eCommerce sales tax retroactively, as far back as five years. have moved to collect sales tax from remote sellers, and it’s just the beginning. To date 43 states and Washington, D.C.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2018

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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JANUARY 17, 2020

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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SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Merchants working to expand and sell online in more markets must comply with each market’s local sales tax regulations, however, and that is an increasingly complicated task. Levy laws can vary widely between states, with one state taxing a product that another does not, for example. Around The Next-Gen Sales Tax World.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

eCommerce firms are navigating a tax collection environment that increasingly requires technology and automation to ensure compliance. In corporate payments news, Citi is tapping into application programming interface (API) calls to make treasury ops real-time.

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MARCH 15, 2019

With the first tax season post-tax reform nearing completion in the U.S., Ongoing regulatory changes and persistent uncertainty mean that that importance will continue even outside of tax season, with challenges that even the most automated of accounting software solutions cannot always tackle. Tackling Tax.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2018

Cloud accounting software firm Xero is broadening its reach in the small business tax filing space through an acquisition of Instafile. ZDNet reported this week that Xero, based in New Zealand, will acquire U.K.-based based Instafile to integrate its cloud-based tax preparation and filing solution.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Since 1992, when eCommerce was still in its infancy, online retailers have not had to collect sales tax. States can now tax sales by companies that do not have a physical presence within the state. Will this increasingly regulated online sales tax environment affect this growth? Online Sales Tax and Marketplaces.

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JANUARY 29, 2020

businesses are likely already feeling tax season’s pressures. Filing is exhausting and complicated for individuals, and businesses experience those tax difficulties to a far greater degree. SMBs And Manual Tax Frustrations. Digitizing these processes can ease SMBs’ tax frustrations. Spring may seem far away, but U.S.

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DECEMBER 13, 2019

In commerce, when it comes to taxes, new business models beget new (tax) problems. Against that backdrop, tax collection in the nascent restaurant delivery space remains fragmented at best — and confusing at worst. But in many cases, these firms may not be collecting sales taxes at all.

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JUNE 14, 2017

Tax and accounting compliance can be an overwhelmingly monumental task as companies expand their geographic footprint. Analysts agree that a company should work with partners, advisors and technologies that can help them manage their compliance demand across borders. There are also an “extremely high number” of tax rules.

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MAY 15, 2018

Validating tax information to comply with the IRS: sounds like a no-brainer, something every business and finance organization would simply take for granted and have to do. Israch said he was surprised to find so many organizations were not validating tax info in a compliant manner, considering the current compliance regime.

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DECEMBER 26, 2019

In today’s top news, Sensory released TrulyNatural, its speech recognition and natural-language-understanding platform for smart appliances, and China’s Central Bank says stablecoins threaten the yuan’s international development. A ‘Diaper’ by Any Other Tax Code: The Complexities of Selling Across State Tax Laws.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2019

The Bank of England has told HSBC to improve compliance controls for non-fiscal factors like fraud and staff conduct, according to a report by Reuters. Samir Assaf, HSBC head of global banking and markets, shared the news with other seniors bankers on Tuesday (Nov. HSBC CFO Ewen Stevenson announced plans to restructure the U.K.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

Countries around the globe are launching new digital sales taxes in efforts to improve their revenue streams and create more balanced business environments for domestic brick-and-mortars and foreign eCommerce marketplaces. Around the Next-Gen Sales Tax world. in response, threatened a variety of retaliatory taxes.

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OCTOBER 28, 2019

Wayfair case that allowed states and individual cities to launch tax policies aimed at remote sellers and marketplaces is still reverberating in 2019 and will likely affect online retail in 2020. In Q3 2019, 14 states started collected online sales tax and 11 more followed in October. eBay Makes a Deal. Don’t cry for eBay, though.

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MAY 6, 2019

The West Virginia State Auditor’ s office has announced a new tax program aimed at vendors who owe the state money. This process is designed to insure the State is not paying vendors who are not paying their taxes. The program will prevent vendors who owe the state money from being payed.

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OCTOBER 1, 2019

Key international negotiations surrounding Brexit stand to reshape global eCommerce, including the kinds and amounts of taxes that online marketplaces will face. 31 whether or not a deal is signed, however, leaving businesses to guess how they should prepare for any new tax compliance obligations that could be set in motion.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2019

The tax man looms across state and international borders, searching for digitally derived dollars due — scanning sites, platforms and even pop-up stores. For retailers and other firms, there’s the persistent lure of broadened reach into new markets. That means they must navigate tax collection nuances. Wayfair, Inc. ,

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

As commerce has, increasingly, moved into the digital realm, and even the smallest merchants have gone omnichannel, tax policy has evolved as well — although perhaps it may be more apt to say tax policy has scrambled to keep up. Thus far, a bit more than a year after the ruling, tax policy remains fragmented.

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OCTOBER 11, 2019

But along the way, global digital sales also carry a host of regulatory hurdles when it comes to satisfying various tax regimes. As he told PYMNTS, challenges confront eCommerce firms that seek to understand the broad range of compliance and taxation frameworks that can differ greatly among the countries into which they sell.

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OCTOBER 24, 2019

Wayfair ruling gave states and cities permission to tax remote sellers and online marketplaces based on their economic participation in the state, regardless of whether they had physical presences. Online retailers aren’t sitting still when faced with new taxes — and some are even fighting back in court.

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AUGUST 24, 2018

Electronic payments company ACI Worldwide is integrating its technologies with SPAN Enterprises , a tax filing technology provider, to power tax payments for the fleet industry. ExpressTruckTax provides compliance to the trucking fleet industry, as companies with vehicles operating on public highways have specific filing requirements.

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JANUARY 24, 2021

Cygnet Infotech promotes FACE as a product that handles not only conventional accounting processes, but also provides specialized handling of challenges around goods and services taxes. One facet of helping with compliance is the automatic recording of journal entries.

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DECEMBER 7, 2020

Here’s the latest news from the technology industry, which is coming under increasing scrutiny from governments around the world. UK Regulations to Create New Digital Markets Unit. That new division will fall under the country’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA). Canada Looks to Tax International Tech Firms.

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AUGUST 24, 2020

Here’s the latest news from Facebook, Amazon and others, which are coming under increasing scrutiny from regulators, trade groups and politicians the world over. The news comes as a new Indian equalization measure came into existence in 2020 that puts a 2 percent tax on every digital transaction that foreign online shopping firms conduct.

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JULY 26, 2018

The American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) submitted recommendations to policymakers this week, urging clarity and simplification in how the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act impacts small business (SMBs) accounting rules. The letter outlined eight recommendations for the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.

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