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Uber Eats Says Customers Donated $3M To Help Unemployed Workers

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Uber Eats said it will send its matched portion to the National Restaurant Association’s Restaurant Employee Relief Fund. As reported in early April, the National Restaurant Association created the fund to support U.S. Two days later, it expanded citywide and then was introduced over the next week to the rest of the nation. “We

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Marriott Sees ‘Improving Trends’ In Greater China As Region’s Travel Begins Recovery

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As some beaches reopened last weekend, Sorenson noted that the Ritz-Carlton Bacara in Santa Barbara and the company’s hotels in Hilton Head, South Carolina were expected to attain roughly 50 percent of occupancy based on reservations on the books.

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A ‘Diaper’ By Any Other Tax Code: The Complexities Of Selling Across State Tax Laws

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Out-of-state retailers that sold into California, Louisiana and South Carolina are being asked to retroactively comply with remote seller laws, and pay taxes on sales conducted in the years before the laws were in place. National Retailers On Staying Compliant When Tax Exemptions Are Only Statewid e.

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Who Pays A Higher Price For Online Sales Tax?

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South Carolina, though, is attempting to retroactively collect taxes from Amazon. A majority — 53 percent — thought that managing sales taxes for their businesses was either “somewhat” or “not at all” clear. . A recent survey of U.S. Clearly, the largest online marketplaces will be fine.

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How Clandestina (Literally) Snuck Into The US Market

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And while those numbers aren’t likely to keep Amazon or H&M up at night, for a small Cuban eCommerce startup operating out of nation where internet access is patchy and from which the company can’t ship goods directly to U.S. Frenzy manages printing, packing and shipping. customers, these early figures are pretty exciting.

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US Liquor Sales Rise, But Not Enough To Offset COVID-Related Global Revenue Decline

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alcohol sales shot up 55 percent in late March, just as stay-at home orders were going into effect across the nation. Are people in other nations less likely to try to drown their pandemic-related sorrows in booze? The big hit that alcohol firms are taking might come as a surprise, given the steady stream of reports about surging U.S.

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Spotlight on lending: Commercial loan growth geographically

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Nationally, the picture is a fine one. Sageworks Senior Risk Management Consultant Garrett Morris explained, “Based on market trends and the statistics below, its clear community and regional banks are looking to compete with national institutions to grow their loan portfolios given today’s good credit quality.”

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