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Mexico To Tax Digital Services From Other Countries

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Mexico passed a law this week that taxes digital services from other countries, according to a report. A 16 percent value-added tax (VAT) will be tacked onto digital services starting on June 1 of this year. The tax will cover all online applications, including video, audio streaming, images, education and others.

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Hacker Tracker: The Evolving Threat Of Tax Fraud

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Earlier this year, the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration reported that there was a reduction in the number of fraudulent tax returns identified between 2013 and 2015. What’s Next In Tax Fraud. As of February, the number of mentions in 2017 so far was already over 40 percent of the 2016 total.

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The Strange Spending Trends Around Sales Tax Holidays

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And though that figure fluctuates a bit from year to year — to an all time high point in 2013 when 52 percent of back-to-school shopping was done by early August, from a low point in 2012 when the figure slipped down to 40 percent — it tends to stay snuggly in the middle range. How Tax Holidays Work. In 2017, Americans spent $83.6

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China’s Tax On Foreign eCommerce Sites

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China has some new taxes on goods imported through eCommerce sites, though it has also removed some duties that had previously been assessed. Food will now import at a higher duty price; previously the tax was 10 percent. percent, a dip from the 17 percent currently being charged as a value-added tax in Chinese physical stores.

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Global relief at source: The tax gold standard?

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The EU Tax Barriers Business Advisory Group (TBBAG) calculated in 2013 that annually, roughly €5.47bn in recoverable tax is retained by EU tax authorities. Right time, right place? That figure has continued to climb as investors increasingly diversify their portfolios across a wider.

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Bitcoin Daily: Germany’s BaFin Seizes Allegedly Unlicensed Bitcoin ATMs; Police Confiscate $30M In Crypto From Closed Movie Streaming Site In Germany

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The Dresden Public Prosecutor’s Office, State Criminal Police Office in Saxony and Leipzig Tax Investigation Department confiscated the Bitcoin and will be used as damage reparation by the public prosecutor. was shut down in the Spring of 2013 over copyright infringement issues. Movie2k.to

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IRS Cracking Down On Crypto-Holding Taxpayers

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The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is going to send letters to about 10,000 cryptocurrency holders warning them about the penalties they will face if they don’t report their income or pay taxes on the transactions, according to a report by The Wall Street Journal. at the World Bank.

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