Abrigo

DECEMBER 25, 2014

Our most popular post in 2014 was also one of our earliest. Consider downloading a copy of this or other checklists from Sageworks to help you prepare for the upcoming tax season. It provides a list of questions that accountants can use to better understand client challenges and highlight opportunities to cross-sell advisory services.

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AUGUST 13, 2018

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.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

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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MAY 9, 2018

Direct deposits, new products and tax refunds helped Green Dot beat revenue expectations for the first quarter of 2018. Green Dot’s tax refund business also showed gains. million tax refunds in the first quarter of 2018, a 2 percent increase from the same period — tax season — last year. The company processed 8.75

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AUGUST 13, 2018

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.

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TheGuardian

OCTOBER 8, 2023

Both red and blue states with legalized marijuana laws have collected $15bn in tax revenue between 2014 and 2022, with $3.77bn in tax revenue attributed to 2022 alone. An additional eight states have decriminalized its use. Continue reading.

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DECEMBER 19, 2019

Cryptocurrency accounting firm Lukka has released a new service that will figure out the taxes on crypto assets, according to a report by CoinDesk. The new service comes on the heels of an announcement by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) that it was changing the guidelines for how taxes were calculated.

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Payments Source

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

When Credit Suisse AG pleaded guilty in 2014 to helping Americans cheat on their taxes, it promised to help the U.S. root out suspicious accounts. investigators want to know why the Swiss bank neglected to tell them about $200 million in undeclared assets owned by an American client, according to people familiar with the matter.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2019

The Colorado Department of Revenue has revealed that the state’s regulated marijuana industry sales have topped $6 billion since sales began in 2014. In addition, taxes generated by the industry grew by nearly 8 percent last year. To date, marijuana tax, license and fee revenue totals for Colorado are over $927 million.

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MAY 22, 2020

DCC merchants will not have to pay income tax or corporate tax and will get support services for immigration, healthcare, administration and banking. The proposal is part of The Smart Dubai program, which was launched in 2014 as a government initiative.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 12, 2019

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. billion : The amount of theft, at a minimum, caused by fraudulent tax returns in 2016. .

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FICO

OCTOBER 26, 2017

You would think one system would be enough to manage foreign tax compliance. In 2010 the IRS (Internal Revenue Service) started to define the details of FATCA (Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act). Two aspects are of interest: possible additional tax revenue from foreign accounts and additional information on the customers.

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CFPB Monitor

MARCH 30, 2015

The CFPB’s Consumer Response Annual Report analyzing complaints handled in 2014 indicates that volume rose 53% from 163,700 complaints in 2013 to 250,200 in 2014. Also, while in 2013 the CFPB received the most complaints about mortgages, it received substantially more complaints in 2014 about debt collection than mortgages.

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JANUARY 15, 2021

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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JULY 15, 2019

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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DECEMBER 9, 2020

The United Kingdom’s economic and finance ministry, HM Treasury, seeks input on the challenges that the sharing economy creates for value-added tax (VAT). However, the ministry notes that available information indicates that the sharing economy has expanded quickly throughout the globe, and it is predicted to keep doing so.

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Bankelele

JANUARY 31, 2015

The 2014 annual general meeting (AGM) of Unga Ltd. shareholders took place at KICC in Nairobi on December 2 2014. Some highlights: Maize milling is not very profitable due to tax evading competition at the county level and has been brought back in-house to control the consistency of quality and supply.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2020

She’s alleging the city profited by that same amount selling medallions and by collecting a 5% tax on third-party transfers. The price of an individual taxi medallion sold at an auction skyrocketed 240 percent from 2004 to 2014, from $283,300 to $965,000.

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JANUARY 24, 2020

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who came to power in 2014, has been steadily putting restrictions on imports while letting foreign countries invest in other things like defense, manufacturing and other fields. “Our aim is to curb imports of non-essential items,” said one official.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Ant Financial , the Chinese FinTech giant and an affiliate of Alibaba Group , posted an earnings pre-tax loss of 2.4 The Wall Street Journal ( WSJ ), citing Ant, reported that the company had a pre-tax profit of 5.3 billion yuan in pre-tax profit in the fiscal year ending in March, Bloomberg reported. It posted 9.18

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JUNE 19, 2017

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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Bankelele

DECEMBER 14, 2014

The government now taxes a 10% tax on every fee-levied by a bank on a customer – whether it’s for an M-Pesa withdrawal, ledger fee, new debit/credit card, even a tax payment.a tax on almost every charge except for loan interest. Cost of Financial Inclusion: Bank charges are creeping up for many.

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BankUnderground

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

In a new working paper , we show that cap-and-trade schemes lead to lower volatility in GDP and financial variables, and result in reduced welfare costs of the business cycle , when compared to the more widely known carbon taxes. We find that a cap-and-trade system keeps the economy significantly more stable.

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BankBazaar

JUNE 18, 2020

If your tax slab is 30%, your FD returns will be taxed to that extent, unless you’re a senior citizen eligible for certain income tax bene?ts after income tax and that is your e?ective ective post-tax return (refer to Table 2). higher per annum post tax than ?xed ts on this front.

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DECEMBER 20, 2017

Reuters, citing the FATF, reported that in addition to failing to punish money launderers, Mexico’s tax authorities aren’t regulating money from real estate and luxury goods firms, which are just a front for drug operations. The allegations came in a draft report on Mexico’s efforts to fight back against illicit finance.

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South State Correspondent

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Banks that can identify specialty accounts for items like healthcare, home improvement, charitable giving, or education may want to provide tax reporting to help customers better track their tax position. days back in 2014, in 2024, it is now closer to one day due to the increase in usage around same day ACH and instant payments.

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MARCH 5, 2019

million times last year for such offenses as unpaid taxes and fines. million times from purchasing train tickets, while 128 people were blocked from leaving the country because of unpaid taxes. According to the Associated Press , individuals were blocked from buying tickets 17.5

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Abrigo

JANUARY 6, 2017

The 2016 National Management of an Accounting Practice survey found that the use of cloud services by CPA firms has grown since 2014, with 56 percent of all firms surveyed saying they use cloud-based software, up from 48 percent in 2014 and 29 percent in 2012. Register here.)

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NOVEMBER 16, 2018

states (and the District of Columbia) where marijuana has been legalized for sale in some capacity, it has thrown off a fairly large chunk of tax revenue in the last year. billion in taxes from legal cannabis companies last year, an amount of money that is undoubtedly a sizzle for the federal coffers.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

According to the publication, KPMG’s Small Business Accounting (SBA) service, which launched in 2014, will be closed in the U.K. The move to close SBA operations comes just weeks after KPMG introduced its small business tax and accounting service, Spark, for small businesses in the U.S. will remain unaffected.

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Abrigo

DECEMBER 27, 2014

An accountant''s workload is much more than just tax preparation and number crunching. According to a 2014 IBISWorld report, financially-cognizant companies are increasingly turning to their accounting firms for advice on how to reduce inefficiencies in daily operations and eliminate unnecessary costs.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 25, 2019

We have deep, data-supported dives on Apple Pay, the outlooks for payments innovation in the 2020s, web sales taxes and Amazon’s holiday shopping season news. NRF On The Case For Revising eCommerce Sales Tax Laws. Online retailers aren’t sitting still when faced with new taxes — and some are even fighting back in court.

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MAY 12, 2016

office were facilitating tax evasion and money laundering. regulators didn’t seem inclined to take any real steps toward looking into the claims about BSI’s role in tax evasion at the time. A former employee at Swiss bank BSI, who worked at the bank’s U.K. But as the FT’s reports showed, U.K.

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MARCH 9, 2020

billion, prior to taxes and other charges. The British grocer had created the Gain Land venture with CRH in 2014, joining together the 131 locations of the U.K. At the tail end of 2019, Tesco had begun looking at options for its Malaysia and Thailand businesses, including the potential for sales. Tesco said it plans to give back $6.52

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NOVEMBER 21, 2018

billion every year in what would have been government revenue between 2010 and 2014. A company may overstate the value of goods they import, paying that invoice to move excess funds overseas or avoid VAT or customs taxes.

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DECEMBER 27, 2020

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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OCTOBER 8, 2019

Cotten didn’t file personal tax returns for 2014, 2015 or 2017 and his 2016 return didn’t report any income from Quadriga, and Robertson’s tax returns from 2015 and 2016 showed income of less than C$60,000 a year, while in 2017 there was income of less than C$5,000 — but none of it from Quadriga.

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