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W Virginia Withholds Payment To Tax Delinquent Vendors

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The West Virginia State Auditor’ s office has announced a new tax program aimed at vendors who owe the state money. This process is designed to insure the State is not paying vendors who are not paying their taxes. The vendor will not be able to resume business in West Virginia until it has corrected its delinquency.

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Virginia Man Pleads Guilty To $2.5 Million PPP Swindle

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A Leesburg, Virginia, man pleaded guilty to a federal bank fraud charge that he stole $2.5 District Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Virginia stated in the release. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, in the release. Department of Justice announced in a press release.

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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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Cannabis Cos’ $4.7B In Cash-Based Taxes Overwhelm IRS

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million to a Virginia company to handle “large cash payments for processing cannabis federal taxes.”. billion in taxes last year on nearly $13 billion in revenue from legal cannabis companies. That means the companies are dealing exclusively in cash, even when paying their taxes. According to Quartz , the U.S.

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Five At Five: France Aims To Tax Big Tech

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Today’s coverage includes the latest European push to tax such companies as Google, Apple, Facebook and Amazon. France’s Finance Minister Wants EU-Wide Digital Tax By Year End. The new tax would apply to Google, Apple, Facebook and Amazon so that they are paying what the government sees as a fairer tax rate in the region.

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Is Sales Tax An Anchor On Amazon?

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One of the more long-grumbled complaints in retail is that Amazon and other eCommerce players are able to exploit a loophole that allowed them to mostly avoid charging sales tax. Would collecting sales tax 100 percent of the time take a bit out of Amazon’s bottom line? Recent data suggests — probably not.

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Local Governments Move In On Retail Vacancies

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Many municipalities are looking to help by proposing new uses for vacant retail sites, including a citywide initiative in Fairfax, Virginia called Activate Fairfax , where the Department of Economic Initiative is soliciting requests for interest in an abandoned Container Store location. Even smaller cities are opting for such taxes.

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