Cherry Bekaert

JANUARY 23, 2023

A $5 million grant from the Harvest Foundation, and funding from the Virginia Tobacco Commission and the Virginia Economic Development Partnership, was leveraged to generate an additional $2.71 “We think the CCAT project is a game-changer for the Martinsville-Henry County area. .”

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CPA Practice

MAY 3, 2024

New Mexico small business Saturday gross receipts tax holiday , November 30, 2024 Retailers that maintain their primary place of business in the state and employ no more than 10 employees at any one time may deduct receipts from retail sales of qualifying property with a sales price of less than $500 (i.e.,

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TaxConnex

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Virginia, to name one state, just voted to reinstate their holiday. Tax will apply to specified digital products, other digital goods, and digital codes, including, books, magazines, newspapers, video games or electronic entertainment, music, artwork, photographs and video or audio greeting cards.

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APRIL 6, 2021

A specified digital product includes digital audiovisual works, audio works, books, artwork, photographs, periodicals, newspapers, magazines, video greeting cards, audio greeting cards or video games. West Virginia lawmakers have introduced a bill that would assess a 2% “impact fee” on internet sales originating or ending in the state.

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PYMNTS

JULY 30, 2016

For most mobile games and apps, even reaching 10 million downloads is a marathon,” said Randy Nelson, head of mobile insights at Sensor Tower. The next most successful game in the app store took 77 days and a full global rollout to hit the 50 million figure. “Pokémon GO made that and 50 million in a sprint.”

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 29, 2021

The games include lotteries, sports betting, daily fantasy sports and casino games. online casino games are only allowed in Delaware, Nevada, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. and 14 other countries, 9to5Google reported on Thursday (Jan. Currently in the U.S.,

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

Lidl reportedly plans to open as many as 100 locations across the East Coast by mid-2018, starting with 20 stores located in North and South Carolina, as well as Virginia. headquarters in Arlington, Virginia. Distribution centers are currently under construction in Maryland, Virginia and North Carolina.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 31, 2018

Ten years ago, one-time television writer Susan Collins published the first installment in her post-apocalyptic dystopian young adult novel trilogy, “The Hunger Games.” Once the 24 competitors (tributes) get to the games, they then battle to the death for a national audience that is required by law to watch the games.

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CPA Practice

JANUARY 3, 2024

batteries, duct tape, nonelectric food storage coolers) Alabama annual back-to-school sales tax holiday , July 19–21, 2024 Books priced $30 or less Clothing priced $100 or less Computers, computer software, and school computer supplies priced $750 or less School supplies priced $50 or less Alabama tax-free weekends begin at 12:01 a.m.

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Going Concern

APRIL 21, 2022

Time to whip out an ancient Game of Thrones meme here: The 2021 AICPA Trends in the Supply of Accounting Graduates and the Demand for Public Accounting Recruits report released a couple weeks ago tells us that the number of accounting graduates trended downward in the 2019–2020 academic year (most recent data available), with decreases of 2.8%

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ThomsonReuters

AUGUST 2, 2021

On August 8, 2021, the Summer Olympics in Tokyo (Games of the XXXII Olympiad) will conclude with the closing ceremonies on Sunday evening. These games were delayed a year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. I’m sure there will be more excitement to come before the games finish up at the end of the week. . teams is women’s soccer.

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PYMNTS

MAY 16, 2020

It’s why many restaurateurs are bailing out of the game now, with the belief that the world of in-house dining is, for the time being, deader than disco. A restaurant in Virginia may have come up with something even stranger to keep people coming through their doors in the era of recovery: Mannequins.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

Mobile betting, however, is only allowed in five: New Jersey, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Iowa and Nevada. Illegal bets made through neighborhood bookies and offshore sites are valued at $150 billion a year, The American Gaming Association told the WSJ. Geofencing ensures mobile apps stay within each state.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

Supreme Court ruled in May that states may legalize sports betting — it was already allowed in Nevada — four other states have approved such wagering: Delaware, Mississippi, New Jersey and West Virginia. The state allows both online and offline sports betting, with regulation oversight provided by the West Virginia Lottery Commission.

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Going Concern

JUNE 2, 2022

Whether your class did well on a test, your team won the game, or your friend had a birthday, the pizza party was always the go-to choice to mark the happy event. Coal and Coke Company Store in 1946, Gary, West Virginia. It all starts when we’re kids. Another day older and deeper in debt.

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Going Concern

APRIL 1, 2024

It’s such a game-changer,” said Virginia-based Cherie Gartner, KPMG’s global lead partner for Microsoft, who has helped activate Copilot features for her firm and some of its clients. Early reviews indicate Copilot could be a powerful new force for accountants and other knowledge workers. “Is Is it hype or reality?

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PYMNTS

MARCH 20, 2018

The pilot, according to news from CNBC — which is being tested at Walmart locations in North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, Arkansas, Texas and Colorado — has already exceeded expectations. Consequently, the small-format shops will be unveiled at 500 Walmart locations over the course of the next two years.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

For retailers, it’s the Hunger Games. According to a report in Reuters , “discount provided by Amazon” applies to products like board games, gadgets and other gifty goods that Amazon is especially interested in competing on, particularly against low price-themed Walmart. This year’s newest innovation?

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PYMNTS

MARCH 12, 2019

. “Part of grocery shopping for many people goes beyond getting fresh produce, meats and pantry staples, and includes picking up the perfect bottle of wine for a dinner party or their favorite beer to sip while watching the big game,” Nilam Ganenthiran, chief business officer at Instacart, said in the press release. ”

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

These are just some of the ways these firms are letting consumers buy tickets, make payments at the game and gain access to sporting venues with their mobile devices: The expected increase in mobile ticketing spend for sports by 2023 is 64 percent. Geofencing, however, makes sure that mobile apps remain within each state. Several U.S.-based

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 10, 2017

Wegmans’ spokesperson Jo Vitale commented on the grocery store delivery service saying, “We first launched this in Virginia, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Massachusetts. Of course, those are places where ordering online and home delivery is not unusual, whereas in upstate New York, it is.”.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 23, 2016

Back in December, Walmart announced plans to enter the mobile payments game with its own proprietary payments platform by turning the Walmart.com app into the way that consumers can pay at the physical point of sale. The retail giant’s payment method is finally here. Walmart officially launched Walmart Pay today (June 23) across 15 U.S.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 20, 2016

Indiana, Virginia, Tennessee, Mississippi, Missouri and Colorado have all affirmed daily sports betting as a legal alternative, but other states have seen the issue differently. It speaks to the popularity of our game, the passion and advocacy efforts of our fans and the immense potential states are seeing in the fantasy sports industry.”.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 8, 2019

Food trucks have been around since the 1970s, when taco trucks began making the rounds in New York City, but didn’t become a national sensation until 2008 when two events coincided in such a way as to make a long extant — but largely niche — subsegment of the restaurant game into a mass market phenomenon. economy was blowing up in a bad way.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 11, 2019

. “This has really taken off in recent years,” Larry Sabato, a top elections expert and the director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia, wrote in an email. People who give even five bucks have skin in the game.”

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

The company recently opened a SNKRS Pop-Up shop in Atlanta — as the city gears up for Sunday’s Super Bowl game between the Patriots and the Rams — that will remain in the city until March. The stores slated for closure include a location at the MacArthur Center in Virginia and a store at The Mall at Wellington Green in Florida.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 24, 2017

But Snagajob isn’t the only game in town anymore. Richmond, Virginia-based startup DineGigs is in the midst of a $50,000 funding round as it endeavors to grow its reach and offerings. Here’s how the competition is shaping up.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

And when it comes to the company’s brick-and-mortar game plan, Kreuzberger told the outlet, “our strategy has always been about opening a small number of stores where we have the deepest penetration.”. The brand’s new digs in the Big Apple, however, will be somewhat different than its brick-and-mortar location in Los Angeles.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 9, 2018

Kroger has been amping up its technology game over the last several years, expanding its omnicommerce offerings as it seeks to remain competitive in a crowded market. After launching the service last month in Austin, Cincinnati, Dallas and Virginia Beach, Amazon plans to expand the delivery option across the U.S. throughout 2018.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

cities – Austin, Cincinnati, Dallas and Virginia Beach – but nationwide rollout is scheduled by the end of the year. First, and most obviously, the level of the game just went up for every other player in the grocery. So far, the Whole Foods/Prime Now delivery footprint is small, with service in only four U.S.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 9, 2018

Though people early in Prime’s lifetime realized that it — and voice-activated artificial intelligence (AI) in general — could be a massive game changer, Prime was more of sleeper agent in the world of eCommerce. Though it was a nice perk, it was not a game changer, or perhaps it is better to say it didn’t look like one just yet.

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JUNE 19, 2019

Their argument is that Facebook’s placement and near-global ubiquity uniquely positions it to inject itself and its currency into global payments, commerce, applications and gaming at a scale, which will make it hard to compete. Virginia Senator Mark Warner expressed worry, given Facebook’s rocky relationship with consumer trust in the U.S.,

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PYMNTS

JUNE 30, 2016

And it’s bringing it to the Olympics for the Visa-sponsored athletes to use at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games. Visa rolled out the next generation of payments wearables this month: an NFC-enabled payment ring. These NFC payment rings will be used by all Team Visa athletes in Rio, along with 45 Olympic hopefuls from around the world.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 19, 2019

Their argument is that Facebook’s placement and near global ubiquity uniquely position it inject itself and its currency to into global payments, commerce, applications and gaming at a scale that will be hard to compete with. Virginia Senator Mark Warner, expressed worry given Facebook rocky relationship with consumer trust today in the US.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 4, 2016

Today, in McLean, Virginia, guests of the local Hilton can have their questions answered 24/7, 365 days a year by what is likely the world’s first robot concierge, Connie (named for Conrad Hilton, the patriarch of the Hilton brand), which is powered by IBM’s Watson AI. Now, though, that seems all very quaint and old-fashioned.

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