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Aussie Tax Reg: Cash-Only SMBs Dodging Taxes

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The Australian government is preparing a strategy to combat tax dodging among small businesses amounting to an estimated $11 billion in missing tax payments, News.com.au The nation’s Australian Taxation Office (ATO) warned Monday (Aug. For the 2015-16 tax year, the ATO said the small business tax gap stood at 12.5

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New Mexico Lawsuit Sparks Marijuana Business Tax Debate

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Paying business taxes is a key source of friction for many legal marijuana companies in the nation, particularly for companies that operate on a cash-only basis. A lawsuit in New Mexico is reigniting the debate over marijuana business taxes, only this time, the controversy surrounds how to classify these companies under state tax code.

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NRF Survey: Tax Payers Not Spending Refunds

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That day is when the IRS hands out tax refund checks from the previous year’s tax filing. Research conducted by the National Retail Federation (NRF) and Prosper Insights & Analytics paints a much different picture for this year’s tax refund spending — or, in this case, not spending — activities. Not this year.

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Here’s How Your Tax Day Stacks Up

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Tax season, that is. Curious to know how your taxes stacked up? While we won’t know about 2016’s filings until next year, IRS preliminary data from 2015’s filings (what you submitted in 2016) can shed some light on the typical American taxpayer’s contribution. percent federal tax rate. percent in federal income tax alone.

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How Do Customers — And Retailers — React To Tax Returns?

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For all the johnny-come-latelies who spend the hours before midnight on April 17 scrambling to submit their tax forms, there are millions more Americans who are sitting pretty with their tax refunds already in hand. It’s a peculiar part of tax season. While a National Retail Federation survey found that 65.5

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Foreign Tax Compliance Reporting — FATCA vs. CRS

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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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The Biggest Banking, Regulatory Challenges For Today’s Entrepreneur

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National Small Business Week is this week in the U.S., But analysts from Bank of America, Square, Navcom and the National Association for the Self-Employed warn that challenges for some SMBs have reached new heights, too. and finance experts are celebrating with new data on the state of the entrepreneurial community.

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