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Retailers Woo Homebound Consumers With Big Deals

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With the closure of nearly all casinos nationwide, the online gambling trade group iDevelopment & Economic Association (iDEA) is asking states to free up restrictions so casinos can replace some revenue lost from shutting doors — and help refill state tax coffers, The Wall Street Journal reported.

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Brandless: Procter & Gamble For A Digital Generation?

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Clipping coupons, hunting for generic brands or buying only when products are on sale can net some savings, but these strategies still force consumers to play on the supermarkets’ field. Procter & Gamble (P&G) was created in 1837 by two brothers-in-law who made soap and candles.

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Accounting Professor Indicted on Fraud Charges Over Embezzlement Claims

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of embezzling money invested by a business partner into a company they set up to buy Texas properties sold at auctions due to unpaid taxes. The company was to serve as a real estate joint venture between the two to invest in Texas properties that were being sold at public auctions due to unpaid taxes.

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Friday Footnotes: Accountant Shortage Ramps Up Work Pressure; Celebrities’ Trusted CPAs; ERC Reverse Card | 12.8.23

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Cohen began its professional practice in 1929 and is highly regarded in the Philadelphia area for their experience in audit and tax planning, and compliance. The CAQ surveyed 748 audit partners at eight of the largest accounting firms about conditions for their clients. Cohen & Co., The addition of the Morris J.

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Chinese Consumers’ Pullback Seen As A Global Economic Red Flag

PYMNTS

Levying what amounts to a tax on goods that cross borders is a way to reduce demand for those goods, to hit the exporting country right in the pocketbook and slow their economic growth, to make them give in to demands that may be political or economic in nature. That far outpaces the 20 percent driven by export activity. percent in May.

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Chinese Consumers’ Pullback Seen As Global Economic Red Flag

PYMNTS

Levying what amounts to a tax on goods that cross borders is a way to reduce demand for those goods, to hit the exporting country right in the pocketbook and slow their economic growth, to make them give in to demands that may be political or economic in nature. That far outpaces the 20 percent driven by export activity. percent in May.

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SoftBank-Backed Brandless Goes Bust

PYMNTS

The secret sauce, according to then-CEO Tina Sharky when PYMNTS spoke to her in 2017, was its elimination of what she called “the brand tax,” which typically pushes up prices on brand-name beauty products and household goods by as much as 30 percent.