Tag Archives: Government

Visa Doesn’t Like Merchants

Posted on August 10, 2008 by Tom Mahoney

Visa and MasterCard don’t like merchants and they spent a million and a half dollars in the second quarter of 2008 to prove it. Continue reading →

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“Housing Bill” Affects E-commerce Merchants

Posted on August 4, 2008 by Tom Mahoney

Starting in 2011, the bank or other company that processes a merchant’s debit and credit card transactions must send the Internal Revenue Service a form disclosing the dollar amount of payments the merchant received on those cards each year. Continue reading →

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The IRS Does it Differently

Posted on January 20, 2008 by Tom Mahoney

Apparently the IRS operates under different rules when it comes to data breaches… Continue reading →

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