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Casino Reopenings Draw In Gamblers Despite Online Gaming Surges

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Casinos in Mississippi and Louisiana are reopening this week, and visitors are traveling long distances and waiting in lines to enter the facilities, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal. One person cited in the report drove from Houston to Louisiana with her family for the reopening of casinos on Monday. And, while U.S.

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Facebook CMO Leaving To Focus On Promoting Diversity In Tech

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” According to his LinkedIn profile, Lucio graduated from Louisiana State University with a Bachelor of Arts in history, and worked at Kraft, PepsiCo, Visa and Hewlett-Packard prior to joining Facebook in September 2018. His Facebook corporate profile states that he was born in Spain and grew up in Puerto Rico.

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Remote Seller Taxation: A Job For Tax Automation

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Wayfair Supreme Court decision continue to rattle online merchants, as three states (California, Louisiana and South Carolina) are now trying to collect eCommerce sales tax retroactively, as far back as five years. There is too much risk to not use a dynamic tool to better manage all this complexity.”. Implementation.

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How Online Sales Tax Impacts Different eCommerce Models

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Will this increasingly regulated online sales tax environment affect this growth? Walmart.com is currently undergoing a legal dispute with a Louisiana parish because it didn’t report or remit the sales tax for sales made by third-party retailers through its online marketplace. More than 230 million U.S. Online Sales Tax and SMBs.

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Community Bank CEO Outlook 2022: Your priorities for the new year

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Fortunately for Red River Bank, loan demand is picking up in Louisiana as cities stabilize from the pandemic and businesses reopen. Regulators haven’t yet broached the subject with them. Blake Chatelain, president and CEO of $2.9 billion-asset Red River Bank in Alexandria, La. Addressing ESG is one thing,” she says. In fact, 16.5%

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Senate Grills Facebook’s Marcus Over Libra

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Brown was far from the only voice on the committee during the hearing with sharp words for the manager Facebook sent. Louisiana Sen. It’s a good idea for us to explore this because quite honestly cryptocurrency now is still kind of the wild, wild west that is not well regulated,” he said. The Many Inquiries . He said the U.S.

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When One State’s Tax-Exempt Necessity Is Another’s High-Tax Discretionary Purchase

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Louisiana exempts most food purchased outside restaurants, for example, while Missouri exempts clay pigeons and targets used in skeet shooting. Consumers are not always aware of these regulations, and some have reached out to allege overbilling and question the higher prices. Managing compliance.

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