easing-the-way Archives

State lawmakers slam attempt at online sales tax law

January 27, 2015 creative collect-sales, congress, country, easing-the-way, house, internet, non-sales-tax, proposed-online, representatives, sales, speaker-john, state-lawmakers, wrote-the-group

U.S. states for years have asked Congress for federal legislation easing the way for them to collect sales taxes on Internet purchases, but now that a bill has been drafted, state lawmakers are resisting. The National Conference of State Legislatures on Tuesday released a letter it sent to House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner on Monday that depicted a proposed online sales tax bill as an unconstitutional attack on states’ rights.

News Posts

Open Text revenue hit by strong US dollar, weak emerging markets

January 27, 2015 admin average, china, country, easing-the-way, helps-companies, internet, middle, officer-john, proposed-online, speaker-john, state-lawmakers, thomson-reuters, wrote-the-group

Canadian business-software maker Open Text Corp’s quarterly revenue fell short of market expectations, hit by a strong U.S.

News Posts

Open Text profit rises 39 percent on strong cloud services business

January 27, 2015 publisher 53-5-million, cents-per, easing-the-way, its-rapidly, officer-john, percent-rise, speaker-john, threefold-jump, waterloo

(Reuters) – Canadian business-software maker Open Text Corp reported a 39 percent rise in quarterly profit, helped by a more than threefold jump in revenue in its rapidly growing cloud services business. Net income attributable to the company rose to $74.3 million, or 60 cents per share in the second quarter ended Dec