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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. Unpacking States’ Unbundling Policies .

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Addressing The Symptoms Of Pharmacies’ Cash Flow Ailments

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Taxes, minimum wage, global trade tariffs — there are a lot of regulatory changes weighing heavily on the minds of U.S. small business owners. Among the heaviest is healthcare , with regulatory changes impacting costs and cash flow for small businesses.

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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. “And,” she says, “always remember to make learning fun.”. Malvern Bank’s personal touch. Here at Malvern Bank, we try not to focus on ‘talent retention,’” says Katelin George, human resources and marketing manager.

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Community Banks and Our Retirement Problem

Jeff For Banks

I recently read a report by the US Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions titled The Retirement Crisis and a Plan to Solve It , led by Senator Tom Harkin (D: Iowa). The employee can save all of the needed savings tax deferred. that reads. government controlled or heavily regulated.

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

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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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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. Farmers are mobile, and they are using the Internet to make decisions about their farms and their finances. download whitepaper.

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

Jeff For Banks

Actually, the Bank had a one-time after tax litigation settlement (from a 2002-04 event) of $6.2 It is the holding company for Home Federal Savings Bank, a $715 million in asset thrift headquartered in Rochester, Minnesota with retail banking and loan production offices in Minnesota, Iowa, and Wisconsin. million on assets of $1.4