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Amazon Gains Juicy Incentives With New Headquarters Locations

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Amazon has selected New York City and Northern Virginia as the homes for its second and third headquarters. By selecting New York City, Amazon will also get a refundable tax credit, via New York State’s Excelsior Program, that could total $1.2 A reported 238 locations competed to land Amazon’s new headquarters.

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Buying into AML risks in real estate

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In 2016 when the Panama Papers exposed an international network of offshore entities involved in tax evasion, fraud, and sanction evasion, some of which included real estate holdings, regulations began to change.

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What’s Next For Real Estate In Amazon’s HQ2 Cities?

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The Seattle-based eCommerce operator and cloud computing provider decided to build in both Crystal City, an urban area in North Virginia near Washington, D.C., billion refundable tax credit is reportedly based on the “percentage of salaries Amazon expects to pay employees over the next decade, or $48K per job for 25K jobs.”

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Fintech Fundings: 30 Companies Raised $330 Million First Week of August

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HQ: Seattle, Washington. Self-employment tax payments. HQ: Reston, Virginia. Tags: SMB, payments, tax prep, accounting. Source: FT Partners. VaultInvesting. Retirement plans for small businesses. Latest round: $1.55 million Seed. Total raised: $1.55 Source: Crunchbase. P2P payments. Latest round: $1.46 Total raised: $2.16