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Casino Reopenings Draw In Gamblers Despite Online Gaming Surges

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Pennsylvania reported similar numbers, with tax revenues from brick-and-mortar gambling dropping to $50.5 As a result, the popularity of brick-and-mortar versus online gaming could vary by region. And, even though revenue for its casinos dropped 61.7 million in March of this year from $67.5 million in March of last year.

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Deep Dive: How The COVID-19 Virus Is Impacting The Online Gambling Industry

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Supreme Court decision allowed sports betting in 2018 and inspired 2019 laws that govern the fledging industry in 10 states and set guidelines such as how online casinos can operate and how sports betting would be taxed. Pennsylvania reported similar figures, with tax revenues from brick-and-mortar gambling declining to $50.5

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Remembering 9/11 – A Pivotal Day for BSA/AML Professionals

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The first plane hitting the Twin Towers, the second plane, the Pentagon, and then our heroes on Flight 93 crashing into a Pennsylvania field. BSA was intended to detect illicit activity through cash and monetary instruments to catch tax evaders using secret foreign bank accounts.

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Time Tried, Panic Tested. The Forgotten Story of the First National Bank of Keystone

Jeff For Banks

billion in assets, had 87 full-time equivalent employees, and accounted for two-thirds of the town's tax revenue. The Bank's Rise McConnell came to the bank in 1977 from McKeesport, Pennsylvania. Another depressed town due to the general economic malaise that bedraggled the region when the steelmaking industry moved elsewhere.

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Book Report: The Unbanking of America by Lisa Servon

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Professor of city and regional planning at the University of Pennsylvania. They pay no Federal income taxes. Something about it being on my Kindle compels me to read it. So I trudged through it to get to her takeaways, which, when I read them, I could have guessed her bio before I read it. Didn't see that coming.

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The eCommerce Bachelor: Which City Will Get The Rose?

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Others are offering standard fare such as tax credits — although even that can’t be viewed as “standard” in this race. New Jersey, for instance, is offering more than the price of Amazon’s investment in tax credits, to the tune of $7 billion, if the company puts HQ2 in Newark. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.