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

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Merchants aiming to sell nationwide must pay attention to how their goods are treated by each state’s tax code. Items considered as exempt medical necessities in some states may be taxed at high rates in others, and businesses cannot afford to be caught by surprise. Around The Next-Gen Sales Tax Wor ld.

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Will eSports And Other Online Businesses Spike Digital Taxes?

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Historians and economists regularly look to tax policies to get a sense of what happened within a particular industry, society or country. No doubt the chronicles to come about the rise of the internet age and the spread of digital culture will include serious treatment of tax issues. Taxing Confusion. billion in 2022.”.

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Big Tech Compliance Tracker: Facebook Hints At EU Pullout Over Data Transfers Laws; Appeal Filed Over Apple’s $15B Tax Bill On Ireland Operations; In-App Billing Battle Rages On

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Canadian Lawmakers Want Big Tech to Pay for Content, Taxes . EU Renews Demand for Back Taxes on Apple’s Ireland Ops. billion back-tax bill in Ireland. Margrethe Vestager, executive vice president of the European Commission for a Europe Fit for the Digital Age , last week appealed that ruling and wants the tax bill paid.

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Challenges to monetary policy: lessons from Medieval Europe

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The Bank of England co-organised a ‘ History and Policy Making Conference ‘ in late 2020. History offers policymakers and academics useful case studies that can serve as distant mirrors beyond the study of crises and policy responses to them. Monetary theory and policy in Medieval France. Nathan Sussman.

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Trending: Close But No Cigar? What Local Sales Tax Laws Mean For Tobacco eSellers

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Countries around the globe are launching new digital sales taxes in efforts to improve their revenue streams and create more balanced business environments for domestic brick-and-mortars and foreign eCommerce marketplaces. Around the Next-Gen Sales Tax world. in response, threatened a variety of retaliatory taxes.

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Digital Taxes, Big Tech In Regulatory Focus As 2020 Dawns

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As 2020 dawns, regulators are continuing to focus on taxes and possible anti-competitive behavior on the part of tech’s marquee names. One continuing theme that will play out into the new year (and well beyond): taxes. The tax took effect at the beginning of this year. Russian regulators are seemingly taking aim at larger U.S.

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

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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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