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Deep Dive: How Not To Lose A Bundle On Bundled Taxes

PYMNTS

Merchants’ marketing departments may find bundling useful, but their accountants are less likely to see it positively — determining individual items’ tax obligations in the different states into which they are sold can be challenging, and putting offerings into bundles only magnifies complexities.

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Addressing The Symptoms Of Pharmacies’ Cash Flow Ailments

PYMNTS

Taxes, minimum wage, global trade tariffs — there are a lot of regulatory changes weighing heavily on the minds of U.S. More so than the average SMB, independent pharmacies are particularly affected by the state of the healthcare market and its regulatory shifts. small business owners.

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How to keep good employees

Independent Banker

One community bank that has found success in retaining its best employees is $180 million-asset Malvern Bank in Malvern, Iowa. Here at Malvern Bank, we try not to focus on ‘talent retention,’” says Katelin George, human resources and marketing manager. In terms of retaining mid-level employees, Pyles believes pay is important.

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Food Stamps Online: The $75B Grocery Game-Changer?

PYMNTS

Low-income consumers are far more likely to find it difficult to secure mainstream credit sources and are thus much more likely to make use of high-cost alternative credit sources when financial emergencies hit, often in the form of a payday, title, tax refund anticipation or installment loan. And that’s just accessing money itself.

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Banking's Top 5 in Total Return to Shareholders: 2017 Edition

Jeff For Banks

I chose five years because banks that focus on year over year returns tend to cut strategic investments come budget time, which hurts their market position, earnings power, and future relevance than those that make those investments. Actually, the Bank had a one-time after tax litigation settlement (from a 2002-04 event) of $6.2

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Cultivate a better ag lending process: 7 best practices

Abrigo

The most recent Iowa Farm and Rural Life Poll on farmers’ use of communications and computing technologies found in 2020 that 66% of farmers said they use a smartphone, up from 30% in 2014. See projections for the ag market and tips for lenders in "The Ag Lender's Survival Guide". Use one system for ag, consumer, and commercial loans.

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Fintech Fundings: 30 Companies Raised $330 Million First Week of August

Fintech Labs Insights

Middle market capital matchmaker. Self-employment tax payments. HQ: Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Fixed income markets enterprise software. Tags: SMB, payments, tax prep, accounting. Total raised: $14.75 HQ: Berlin, Germany. Incubator: FinLeap. Source: Crunchbase. AxialMarket. Latest round: $14 million Series C. AssetRover.