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SMB Tax Complexity Preserves Role For The Human Accountant

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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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3 top tech trends for public accountants to watch in 2017

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Ellison-Taylor, chairman of the AICPA , recently noted that technology tops her list of the most important trends shaping 2017 because it will drive so many of the profession’s opportunities and challenges in the year ahead. But how are accountants supposed to keep up with all of the technological trends ? Register here.)

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Disbursements By Voice Are Growing In Popularity – And Other Instant Disbursements Trends

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Consumers and microbusinesses now get an average of two disbursements each year, excluding tax disbursements from local, state and federal governments. The study surveyed more than 5,000 U.S. 1: Instant disbursements as a percentage of all non-tax disbursements in the U.S. Fast Fact No. are growing — but slowly.

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Who Pays A Higher Price For Online Sales Tax?

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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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Sales Of Small Businesses To Spike, Driven By Tax Reform

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this year, driven largely by tax reform. 26), which found that nearly three-quarters of surveyed advisors and brokers predict sales of SMBs in the country to increase this year. With the corporate tax rate dropping to 21 percent and the repatriation of overseas capital, companies will have more capital to allocate to acquisitions.

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Plastiq Talks Commercial Cards, ePayment Trends

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Other than obvious payments, like corporate taxes, corporate rent, we’re seeing them use the solution to pay all of their key vendors and suppliers,” Buchanan said. In addition to the diversity of payment categories, he added that transaction sizes for small business payers emerged with another unexpected trend in electronic payments.

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Tax Reform Not Enough To Convince Corporates To Spend, AFP Finds

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Tax reform played a key role for several corporate successes in the first quarter of 2018. ” Forty-four percent of survey respondents held larger cash and short-term investment balances by the end of the first quarter compared to the end of Q4 2017. corporates, again attributing the trend to political gridlock and uncertainty.

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