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SMB Tax Complexity Preserves Role For The Human Accountant

PYMNTS

With the first tax season post-tax reform nearing completion in the U.S., Ongoing regulatory changes and persistent uncertainty mean that that importance will continue even outside of tax season, with challenges that even the most automated of accounting software solutions cannot always tackle. Tackling Tax.

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NRF Survey: Tax Payers Not Spending Refunds

PYMNTS

That day is when the IRS hands out tax refund checks from the previous year’s tax filing. Research conducted by the National Retail Federation (NRF) and Prosper Insights & Analytics paints a much different picture for this year’s tax refund spending — or, in this case, not spending — activities. Not this year.

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Who Pays A Higher Price For Online Sales Tax?

PYMNTS

Wayfair case that allowed states and individual cities to launch tax policies aimed at remote sellers and marketplaces is still reverberating in 2019 and will likely affect online retail in 2020. In Q3 2019, 14 states started collected online sales tax and 11 more followed in October. eBay Makes a Deal. Don’t cry for eBay, though.

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National Restaurant Association Framework Aims To Close Gap Between Restaurants And Aggregators

PYMNTS

16), the National Restaurant Association offered up seven public policy tenets that – in collaboration with delivery aggregators – are being billed as a “framework” for the delivery industry. The principles debut at a time when, according to the Association, 70 percent of adults surveyed said they had ordered delivery from a restaurant.

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PYMNTS’ Daily Data Dive: Most Tax Refunds To Be Saved

PYMNTS

While most adults typically are excited about receiving their tax refunds to splurge on luxury items, research from the National Retail Federation (NRF) and Prosper Insights & Analytics is telling a different story. Here are the numbers: 48 percent | Percentage who plan to put tax refunds into savings.

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Interest rate rise would see almost half of Australian mortgage holders under financial stress

TheGuardian

of total borrowers, according to the Australian National University’s Australian tax and welfare system model. Households diverting at least 30% of their disposable income to service a mortgage – a standard stress gauge – will account for 48.5% Continue reading.

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Data: 70 Pct Of North American CFOs Expect Economy To Improve With COVID Vaccines

PYMNTS

Chief financial officers (CFOs) taking part in The CFO Survey by Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business and the Federal Reserve Banks of Richmond and Atlanta are "reasonably optimistic about 2021," one of the study's leaders said in a news release. The CFO Survey data was gathered Nov. 30 through Dec.

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