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

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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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Aussie Tax Reg: Cash-Only SMBs Dodging Taxes

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The Australian government is preparing a strategy to combat tax dodging among small businesses amounting to an estimated $11 billion in missing tax payments, News.com.au The nation’s Australian Taxation Office (ATO) warned Monday (Aug. For the 2015-16 tax year, the ATO said the small business tax gap stood at 12.5

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US Treasury Secretary Sees Libra As National Security Threat

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Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin believes that Facebook’s proposed cryptocurrency could pose as a national security threat. In a press conference on Monday (July 15), Mnuchin warned that Libra “could be misused by money launderers and terrorist financiers” and that it was a “national security issue.”.

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US Treasury: Taxes On Digital Companies Are Discriminatory

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Treasury official said a French tax plan targeting American digital companies is discriminatory against American businesses. Treasury’s top international tax official, called the taxes “ill-conceived,” and said the better option was to go after tax reform internationally at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development ( OECD ).

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Big Tech Compliance Tracker: UK Regulators To Form Digital Markets Unit; Italy Fines Apple $10 Million Over Claims About iPhone Water Resistance

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UK Regulations to Create New Digital Markets Unit. antitrust regulators are creating a Digital Markets Unit that will be given the duty to enforce rules applicable to Big Tech firms. Regulators also called out the tech company’s warranty terms for not covering water damage. Canada Looks to Tax International Tech Firms.

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Bitcoin Daily: Gemini Creates Insurance Unit To Protect Against Crypto Theft; South Korea’s Bithumb Exchange To Fight Crypto Tax Bill

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“In order for there to be mass adoption, the path forward is a regulated, compliant exchange system that clients have become accustomed to in traditional finance.”. The tax is called a retention tax, which is an income tax paid to the government by the income payer and not its recipient. 16) by Cointelegraph. .

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Deep Dive: Digital ID Systems Wrestle With Ethics

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Consumers around the world log in to eBay with their Facebook profiles, purchase lunches with Apple Pay and in some cases pay their taxes or register to vote with government-provided digital identities. The ethical questions digital ID systems generate are numerous and largely without simple answers or solutions. as a guideline.

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