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Navigating The ‘Hot Mess’ Of Online Food Delivery Sales Tax

PYMNTS

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. billion received in 2017.

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Economic Nexus Laws’ Unexpected Impacts On Restricted Substance Retailers

PYMNTS

eCommerce sales tax laws are having unintended consequences in the tobacco industry. These laws were meant to make online sellers face sales tax requirements similar to those for retailers with on-the-ground locations, putting both types of businesses on equal footing. in 2017 had a 52.75

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Here’s How The Opioid Crisis Is Losing Retailers $9B A Year

PYMNTS

Major retailers such as Target, Home Depot, Walmart and Lowe’s have been forced to introduce stricter return, store credit and gift card policies in response to a troubling trend. Smith used drugs for the past decade before starting her recovery journey at Gateway Community Services in Jacksonville, Florida. “As

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Building A More Compliant Cannabis Industry With The Blockchain

PYMNTS

Despite Chris Rock’s old adage that people “don’t sell drugs, drugs sell themselves,” being in the legal — or at least legal-ish — business of cannabis retail is surprisingly difficult and friction-filled work. The problem is not in moving the supply. A very wide path. The exchange we are working on building will be up and launched by Jan.

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A Wealth of Possibilities

Independent Banker

For many community banks a solution has been to offer traditional retail brokerage services (stocks, bonds, mutual funds, annuities, insurance) through strategic alliances with broker-dealers that specialize in placing financial advisors in bank branches.

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Deep Dive: Wayfair’s Complex, Ongoing And Unexpected Effects On Retailers

PYMNTS

Wayfair’s case enabled cities and states to pass economic nexus laws that require out-of-state sellers to collect and remit taxes on local residents’ sales, and it permitted these jurisdictions to implement marketplace facilitator laws necessitating that eCommerce platforms collect and remit taxes on third-party merchants’ sales. .

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GonzoBanker Awards 2017

Gonzobanker

Heavy-handed regulators. Strangest Sale of the Year – Was the first-failed and then convoluted spin-off and sale of BankMobile by Customers Bancorp to Flagship Community in Florida. Credit Union Merger of the Year – Goes to Lake Michigan Credit Union and its CEO Sandy Jelinski for acquiring Florida-based community bank Encore.