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Dubai Creating $870M Free Trading Zone For eCommerce

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Having previously identified the region’s growing eCommerce market and given the traction witnessed by clients (going) online due to the pandemic, we are on track for the scheduled opening by the end of 2020.”. DCC is the first eCommerce free zone to foster retail growth in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region.

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EU ‘Link Tax’ May Shutter Google News Abroad

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A “link tax” might mean the end of Google News in the EU. Richard Gingras, the search engine’s vice-president of news, said while “it’s not desirable to shut down services” the company isn’t happy with Brussels’ current proposal to charge a link tax for using news stories.

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EU Wants US Tech Giants To Pay Revenue Tax

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Germany, France, Italy and Spain’s finance ministers have announced plans to tax tech multinationals, such as Amazon and Alphabet Inc./ They would like the EU to develop a region-wide plan to implement their proposal, and plan to present it to all 28 EU finance ministers at a meeting next week. billion in revenue tax.

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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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The Rise Of Faster Disbursements

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In addition, the problem of fraudulent tax returns could keep growing as digital processes come to the tax-filing-and-return space. Data: 2014: The year dessert delivery on-demand business SugarMoo was founded. 10 : The number of countries in the region in which Grab operates. All this, Today In Data.

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A too-busy-to-change mentality can cost accounting firms new business

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How many times have you had to refer a client out to another financial services firm because your firm is too busy putting out fires with tax and audit work to provide business analytics or other advisory services ? “So they hope the clients will come back after they pass them off to a valuation firm.”

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Today In Data: Self-Employment, Finance Jobs And PayPal’s Woes

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The self-employed workforce is growing, despite hurdles like financial insecurity, lack of pension, expense tracking, tax returns and more. 100 percent | Growth of international payments solution Flywire’s business in the Asia-Pacific region over the last year. because of Brexit.

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