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SMB Tax Complexity Preserves Role For The Human Accountant

PYMNTS

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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PPP Loan Forgiveness May Be Hard To Win For Self-Employed Workers

PYMNTS

The measure limits independent contractors and the self-employed to borrow up to two months of their pay based on their 2019 income tax return or $15,385, whichever is less, toward forgiveness. If they can’t convince the SBA they met those requirements, borrowers have two years to repay it at a 1 percent interest rate.

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Bank Customers Lose Real Money

Jeff For Banks

Heck, maybe there'll be a reassessment and your real estate taxes will go down. Taxes go down? Although this is higher than the current top guideline of Fed Funds rate of 25 basis points, I feel comfortable using it as a proxy for bank savings rates. I made a funny. One peer average was 36 basis points and the other 37.

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Conducting an exam-proof AML/CFT risk assessment for credit unions

Abrigo

Step two Identify inherent risk vs. residual risk Inherent risk is any activity or factor posed to the credit union, notwithstanding applying any management or risk mitigation tools. After adjusting the inherent risk for the credit union’s risk management controls, residual risk represents the bank or credit union’s current risk.

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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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Reverse Trend

Independent Banker

A recent national survey from The Demand Institute reveals that 63 percent of baby boomers plan on “aging in place” in their current home. New FHA guidelines. While niche nonbank players are providing these loans, this lending opportunity is wide open for traditional community banks, the community bankers say. About the market.

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What's With Regulator Agita Over Bank Commercial Real Estate Lending?

Jeff For Banks

Both institutions were over the CRE concentration guidelines, so putting them together would exasperate this risk, so the regulatory thinking must have been. And success is the great mollifier to risk managers that wish to take away the punch bowl when the party's rockin'. Last December, Astoria Financial Corp.

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