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NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Today’s coverage includes the latest European push to tax such companies as Google, Apple, Facebook and Amazon. France’s Finance Minister Wants EU-Wide Digital Tax By Year End. The new tax would apply to Google, Apple, Facebook and Amazon so that they are paying what the government sees as a fairer tax rate in the region.

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AUGUST 21, 2019

Amazon was going to build a huge new headquarters in New York, but eventually decided against it, due to local opposition and despite tax breaks. The company’s next headquarters is being built in Arlington, Virginia. Because of the competition in the region, Amazon has reportedly been considering partnering up with physical stores.

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MARCH 17, 2020

Many municipalities are looking to help by proposing new uses for vacant retail sites, including a citywide initiative in Fairfax, Virginia called Activate Fairfax , where the Department of Economic Initiative is soliciting requests for interest in an abandoned Container Store location. Even smaller cities are opting for such taxes.

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OCTOBER 19, 2018

However, the suburbs of Montgomery County, Maryland and Northern Virginia, along with the District of Columbia, have “long been speculated to be frontrunners,” according to the paper. That is partly because Amazon Chief Executive Jeff Bezos owns The Washington Post and has a house in the region.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2018

The Seattle-based eCommerce operator and cloud computing provider decided to build in both Crystal City, an urban area in North Virginia near Washington, D.C., billion refundable tax credit is reportedly based on the “percentage of salaries Amazon expects to pay employees over the next decade, or $48K per job for 25K jobs.”

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MARCH 12, 2016

Trade has been a big topic of conversation on the campaign trail, as have debt, taxes, wages, immigration and monetary policy. Businesses were not only unhappy to be facing the problem, but many owners across regions and political affiliations also noted marked discontent with the invisibility of the issue.

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Jeff For Banks

NOVEMBER 24, 2019

September 1st, 1999, regulators from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp, at the behest of the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, descended on a small coal mining town in Keystone, West Virginia. billion in assets, had 87 full-time equivalent employees, and accounted for two-thirds of the town's tax revenue. billion in assets.

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