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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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France’s ‘Digital Tax’ On Tech Firms Passes

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Even with the United States announcing it would look into a proposed “digital tax” in France, the country is moving forward with the measure. The country’s Senate has approved the tax despite the threat of an investigation from the United States, according to 9 to 5 Mac. Earlier this year, it was reported that Chip Harter, the U.S.

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Overstock To Pay Some Ohio Business Taxes With Bitcoin

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3) that it will pay a portion of its state business taxes in Ohio in bitcoin, becoming the first major U.S. company to pay state taxes in bitcoin. state to offer this way of paying for business taxes, noted Overstock in the press release. “We Overstock , the online retailer and blockchain company, announced Thursday (Jan.

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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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Bitcoin Daily: Venezuela May Collect Taxes In Crypto; Russian Agency Proposes AI To Track Crypto Transactions

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Venezuela may be going forward with a plan to allow the use of the Petro (PTR) cryptocurrency to pay taxes, according to Cointelegraph. The system would be used to look into alleged illegal deals with digital assets and to locate crypto funding schemes that are involved in money laundering and terrorism, according to CoinDesk.

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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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