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Japan Introduces Cash-Back Rewards In Response To Tax Hike

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Japan has introduced a system of cash-back rewards points in response to increasing the consumption tax from 8 percent to 10 percent. The new system — which rebates the tax increase in some stores when paying with a card rather than cash — will run until June 2020. While there were some system problems reported on Tuesday (Oct.

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Hedging Bets, Hedging Taxes As Taxman Cometh For Cryptos  

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Tax policy. The move to grab billions of dollars in holdings amid wild speculation has come against a backdrop where tax policy remains unsure. The upshot may be taxes owed, or penalties looming … or both. You can’t tax something – a least not easily – without defining what is being taxed. A currency?

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Hedging Bets, Hedging Taxes as Taxman Cometh for Cryptos  

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Tax policy. The move to grab billions of dollars in holdings amid wild speculation has come against a backdrop where tax policy remains unsure. The upshot may be taxes owed, or penalties looming…or both. You can’t tax something – a least not easily – without defining what is being taxed. A currency?

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In Australia, Card (And Other Payments) Fraud Is Big Business

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Separately, in Oklahoma, a computer software company owner has pleaded guilty to payroll tax fraud. The Justice Department reported that from January of 2014 through June of 2016, Earenest J. intentionally caused” the United States a tax loss of more than $1 million. Grayson Jr., owner of Zealcon Corp.,

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Soupman Files For Bankruptcy Protection

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Bertrand was charged with 20 counts of failing to pay federal income taxes, Medicare and Social Security for the company’s employees between 2010 and 2014. million, and total alleged tax loss to the U.S. Total alleged unreported cash and stock compensation was around $2.86 was about $594,000.

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Direct Listings And SPACS, Change The Face of Public Offerings

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firms alone raised more than $435 billion, far outpacing the $279 billion raised in 2014, the previous annual record. As 2020 sunsets, we’ve seen all manner of listings, including previously less-prevalent ones that, in a year like no other, outperformed traditional initial public offerings in terms of dollars raised.

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FinCEN Hits Capital One For $390 Million; Says Bank Violated Bank Secrecy Act

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It also said the bank’s Check Cashing Group admitted that it failed to file thousands of suspicious activity reports (SARs) as well as thousands of Currency Transaction Reports (CTRs) from 2008 to 2014. financial system.”.

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