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Cannabis Cos’ $4.7B In Cash-Based Taxes Overwhelm IRS

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million to a Virginia company to handle “large cash payments for processing cannabis federal taxes.”. billion in taxes last year on nearly $13 billion in revenue from legal cannabis companies. Most of these companies were forced to pay their federal taxes in cash because about 70 percent of all legal cannabis businesses are unbanked.

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The (Un)Certainty Of eCommerce Sales Taxes

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The only certainties in life, the saying goes, are death and taxes. We’ll underscore the certainty of the latter — taxes — for eCommerce firms and sales taxes , especially. Although taxes may be certain — just how much tax is due, and where, and perhaps even when, are all variables that are far from certain.

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SaaS sales tax compliance software Anrok hits $100M valuation. Anrok’s competitors include Avalara, DAVO Technologies, TaxCloud, Taxware, and Vertex.

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Anrok , a SaaS sales tax solution, has raised $20M in a Series A. California-based Anrok unifies sales tax monitoring, calculation, and payments processes across the enterprise financial stack. The startup operates in the US and has teams in San Francisco, Texas, Colorado, and Washington, among other locations in the US.

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Credit Union Helps US Marijuana Businesses Put Down Roots

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Massachusetts joins a handful of states, including Colorado, Washington and Maine, that have taken steps to legalize recreational marijuana. GFA spent time researching how Colorado was affected after it legalized recreational marijuana in 2012: The state’s marijuana businesses were often beset by break-ins, robberies and even murders.

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Buying into AML risks in real estate

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In 2016 when the Panama Papers exposed an international network of offshore entities involved in tax evasion, fraud, and sanction evasion, some of which included real estate holdings, regulations began to change. The institutions are the ones shouldering the costs of compliance, examinations, and fines.

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Fizzle Of The Week: The Cannabis Payments Conundrum

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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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It’s Not Easy Being Green: Cannabis Payments

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Voters in Colorado amended their state constitution with Colorado Amendment 64, which essentially legalized the recreational consumption of marijuana for adults over 21. Coley, Regulatory & Compliance Principal and Former Fed Bank Examiner Dante Tosetti and Green Bits CEO Ben Curren.

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