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New Square Tool Helps SMBs Create Separate Tax Infrastructures

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The tool’s purpose is to simplify the difficult EIN acquisition process to create a separate tax infrastructure for the business. In layman’s terms, an EIN is like a business’ Social Security number; the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) uses it to help identify businesses when it comes to tax issues.

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In Australia, Card (And Other Payments) Fraud Is Big Business

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In terms of individual fraud incidents, in Georgia, in June, the cyber-thieves were able to steal more than $800,000 from the city of Griffin via the ruse that is known as business email compromise (BEC). Separately, in Oklahoma, a computer software company owner has pleaded guilty to payroll tax fraud. Grayson Jr.,

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Debt Collection Tops ID Theft On FTC Complaint List

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Identity theft, at the second spot in top complaints, jumped more than 47 percent year over year in 2015, with a chief impetus being tax identity theft. In total, through the past year, the network gathered more than 3 million complaints, with Florida, Georgia and Michigan at the top of the state list for fraud complaints.

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The Election That Misplaced Small Businesses

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Trade has been a big topic of conversation on the campaign trail, as have debt, taxes, wages, immigration and monetary policy. 2) Can taxes be made comprehensible? There is the answer we thought we would get when we asked store front businesses about taxes — and then there is the answer we did get.

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Fintech Fundings: 22 Companies Raise $300 Million Plus 2 IPOs Raise $5.9 Billion

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HQ: Atlanta, Georgia. HQ: Atlanta, Georgia. Secure messaging for financial services. Tags: Enterprise, IDology (investor), security, risk management, payments, Finovate alum. Latest round: $2.56 billion IPO. Total raised: Unknown. Source: TechCrunch. Alt-lender to small businesses. Total raised: $600 million.

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Fintech Fundings: 13 Companies Raise $900 Million Week Ending Nov 12

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HQ: Duluth, Georgia. Tags: Enterprise, fraud, security, online banking, payments, API, developers, big data. Here are the deals by size from 7 Nov to 12 Nov, 2015: NCR. ATMs, POS & financial technology. Latest round: $820 million Post-IPO equity. Total raised: Unknown. Source: WSJ. Equity crowdfunding platform. Source: Crunchbase.

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

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HQ: Atlanta, Georgia. Tax preparation technology. Tax preparation technology. Tags: Consumers, tax prep, personal financial management. Source: Crunchbase. Connecture. Health insurance distribution platform. Latest round: $52 million (post-IPO equity). Total raised: $75+ million. Source: Crunchbase. Cumulus Funding.

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