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

PYMNTS

Sales taxes empower governments to maintain critical public services, but they can also make medical essentials too expensive for those who need them. Campaigns against taxing obligatory items are spreading across the United States, forcing states to rethink their revenue generation decisions. Sales taxes’ price tags.

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Missouri’s Cash Tax Payment Ban Proposal Irks Cannabis Firms

PYMNTS

The state of Missouri is reportedly considering a ban on cash tax payments, a move that has raised concerns for local legal marijuana businesses that are struggling to obtain banking services and relying on cash to remain in operation. On a national level, the U.S.

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As The Online Tax Man Cometh, Will Smaller Retailers Embrace Marketplaces?

PYMNTS

As commerce has, increasingly, moved into the digital realm, and even the smallest merchants have gone omnichannel, tax policy has evolved as well — although perhaps it may be more apt to say tax policy has scrambled to keep up. Thus far, a bit more than a year after the ruling, tax policy remains fragmented.

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What Wayfair’s Lawyer Says About The Wayfair v. South Dakota Decision

PYMNTS

Wayfair ruling allowed counties, states and municipalities to pass laws to tax out-of-state sellers and the eCommerce marketplaces that serve them, but the ruling did not disclose specifications on what such laws must look like. Governments and businesses have recently been fighting in court over disputes regarding remote seller tax policies.

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Online Sales Tax’s ‘Pivotal,’ Post-Wayfair 2019 — And What Lies Ahead

PYMNTS

In an interview with PYMNTS, Liz Armbruester, senior vice president of Global Compliance at Avalara , said 2019 represented a watershed year for tax compliance as states embraced the economic nexus model and passed marketplace facilitator laws. Imposing state taxes on out-of-state sellers is now the new normal, she said.

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The future of workplace flexibility

Independent Banker

Adrian Breen, The Bank of Missouri. Not having everyone working under one roof comes with risks, acknowledges Adrian Breen, president and CEO of The Bank of Missouri in Perryville, Mo. “As This year, The Bank of Missouri has posted a number of job openings that are categorized as either fully remote or “optional work from home.”

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Industry Trade Groups Respond to FHFA Request for Input on PACE Transactions

CFPB Monitor

FHFA describes PACE transactions as being part of residential energy retrofitting programs that are created through special state legislation and result in the financed part of the transaction resulting in a tax assessment on the home, which is a ‘‘super-priority lien’’ over existing and subsequent first mortgages. (As RESPRO), and U.S.