#compliance
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A practical vendor-onboarding playbook for collecting W-9s, passing IRS TIN matching, handling CP2100 and B notices, and avoiding 24% backup withholding and 1099 penalties in 2026.
Surcharging, cash discounts, and dual pricing are the three legal ways to pass card fees to customers in 2026—surcharges cap at 3% (Visa) and are banned in CT, ME, and MA, while cash discounts and dual pricing are legal in all 50 states and skip the 30-day network notice.
In 2025, plaintiffs filed 3,117 federal ADA Title III website accessibility lawsuits and an estimated 35,000–50,000 private demand letters reached U.S. businesses. This guide explains what WCAG 2.1 Level AA actually requires, why the Robles v. Domino's Pizza ruling and the DOJ's 2024 Title II rule made it the de facto standard, and how small and mid-size businesses can build a five-phase remediation roadmap and defensible paper trail before a demand letter arrives.
California SB 478, the FTC Junk Fees Rule, and new Minnesota, Massachusetts, and Connecticut statutes require all-in pricing across hotels, tickets, restaurants, and subscriptions in 2026. A practical compliance checklist covering pricing engines, third-party feeds, frontline scripts, and the accounting reclassification work that follows.
California's SB 53 (Transparency in Frontier AI Act) took operative effect on January 1, 2026, requiring foundation model developers training above 10^26 FLOPs to publish safety frameworks, report critical incidents to Cal OES within 15 days (24 hours for imminent threats), maintain anonymous whistleblower channels, and face civil penalties up to $1 million per violation enforced by the California Attorney General.
Colorado replaced its original AI Act with SB 26-189, which takes effect January 1, 2027 and imposes pre-use notices, 30-day adverse outcome disclosures, and consumer access, correction, and human review rights on businesses using automated decision-making technology in eight consequential decision categories. A compliance playbook for small and mid-size deployers and developers.
A working contractor's guide to Davis-Bacon compliance in 2026, covering the redesigned WH-347 certified payroll form, fringe benefit annualization, apprenticeship ratios measured daily, the 2023 final rule and 2024 truck-driver injunction, and how the Inflation Reduction Act's five-times tax credit multiplier ties prevailing wage compliance to clean-energy projects.
How the Fifth Circuit's vacatur of the 80/20/30 rule, the DOL's 2024 technical amendment, and an expanding state mini-tip-credit patchwork reshape FLSA tip pooling, dual jobs analysis, and Section 3(m) compliance for restaurants, bars, hotels, and salons in 2026.
A practical guide for U.S. SaaS founders, foundation model providers, and AI agent builders navigating the EU AI Act before the August 2, 2026 enforcement deadline — covering Article 22 representatives, Article 50 transparency disclosures, GPAI Code of Practice obligations, fine tiers up to 7% of global turnover, and procurement-questionnaire readiness.
A practical 2026 walkthrough of FLSA youth employment rules for small employers — the four age tiers, the 17 Hazardous Occupations Orders, state work permits, the $4.25 subminimum wage, Section 3(m) tip rules for teens, and the civil penalty math after the 2024 inflation adjustments.
The Eighth Circuit vacated the FTC's Click-to-Cancel rule in July 2025, but ROSCA, Section 5, and state auto-renewal laws still bind subscription operators—and refund reserves, chargeback liabilities, and contingency accruals still belong on the balance sheet.
A 2026 guide to bookkeeping for independent ATM and Bitcoin kiosk route operators — covering FinCEN MSB registration, BSA/AML programs, Form 8300 thresholds, Section 179 depreciation, vault-float accounting, and the five per-machine KPIs that determine whether a route is actually profitable.
