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DAC7 (Council Directive 2021/514) makes marketplaces report seller data to EU tax authorities by January 31 each year. For goods, you stay exempt only if you are under both 30 transactions and €2,000 on that platform for the calendar year — miss either prong and you are reportable, and ignoring the verification request lets the platform withhold payouts after two reminders and 60 days.
The FDA's Food Traceability Rule (FSMA 204) requires covered businesses to produce lot-level records in a sortable electronic spreadsheet within 24 hours and retain them for two years. The compliance date moved from January 20, 2026 to a proposed July 20, 2028 — here is what CTEs, KDEs, and traceability lot codes require, which 15 commodity categories are covered, and how to build the records now.
The June 2026 dot plot moved the median end-of-year Fed funds projection from 3.4% to 3.8%, erasing the cut many borrowers were waiting for. Here is how prime at 6.75% flows into SBA 7(a), term loan, and line-of-credit pricing, when to lock fixed versus float variable, and the debt-schedule bookkeeping that gets you quoted 0.5%-1.0% lower.
A federal court in the Eastern District of Texas vacated FinCEN's Residential Real Estate Reporting Rule nationwide on March 19, 2026, one day before it took effect, and FinCEN's May 18, 2026 FAQs confirm no Real Estate Report is required and no retroactive filing will be demanded if the Fifth Circuit reverses. The Geographic Targeting Orders were untouched and still bind title insurers in covered metros, so this guide covers the rule's three-part test (residential, non-financed, entity or trust buyer), the seven-step reporting-person cascade, and the intake, retention, and reinstatement-kit practices closing professionals should keep dormant rather than delete.
Employers using electronic Form I-9 systems must update to the 05/31/2027 expiration date by July 31, 2026. This guide covers which editions stay valid, what changed in the 01/20/25 revision, the three-years-after-hire-or-one-year-after-termination retention rule, and which paperwork errors ICE now treats as substantive rather than technical.
Sending a creator a free product is a material connection under 16 CFR Part 255 even when you require nothing in return, and civil penalties now reach $53,088 per non-compliant post. This guide covers what triggers disclosure, why
Product sent to a creator in exchange for promotion is taxable at fair market value under IRC Section 61 — a $400 PR box you review is $400 of Schedule C gross receipts, plus 15.3% self-employment tax on net profit. The 1099-NEC filing threshold rising from $600 to $2,000 changes only when a brand must issue a form, never whether you must report the income.
AI answers now decide who gets found: 68% of Google searches end without a click, and the top organic result loses 34.5%–58% of its clicks when an AI Overview appears. For local queries, 42% of AI citations come from Google Business Profile, 28% from directories, and 17% from the business's own site — so answer-first pages, consistent NAP data, and FAQPage schema matter more than keyword density. Here is a 7-step playbook and a 30-day sprint to earn citations.
The IRS has no single seven-year rule. Income tax records run 3 years, employment tax records 4, substantial income omissions 6, bad-debt and worthless-security losses 7, and unfiled or fraudulent returns never expire — while property records run until the limitations period closes on the year you sell. This guide maps each clock to the documents it governs and gives a retention schedule small business owners can follow.
Iowa's Senate File 629 took effect July 1, 2026, adding one-hour ($200) and same-day ($125) expedited tiers alongside the existing two-day ($50) and five-day ($15) surcharges for Secretary of State business filings. This guide covers which documents qualify, which are still excluded, how to pick the tier that matches your deadline, and how to book the surcharge as a Section 195 start-up cost at formation or a compliance expense afterward.
IRS Letter 6042C verifies a specific business return; Letter 5263C verifies the entity itself on file from Form SS-4, and both carry a 30-day response window that, if missed, stalls your returns, refunds, and overpayment applications. This guide explains how thieves obtain an EIN, the tax and non-tax red flags that signal fraud, exactly what to fax back in each case, when Form 8822-B is required within 60 days of a responsible-party change, and a monthly-quarterly-annual monitoring routine that catches misuse early.
More than 20 state and local jurisdictions raised their minimum wage on July 1, 2026 — Alaska to $14.00, Oregon and D.C. on their annual schedules, plus 17 city and county increases across California, Illinois, Maryland, Minnesota and Oregon — lifting pay for over 360,000 workers by roughly $221 million a year. A seven-step checklist for employers who owe the highest rate where work is performed, including how to split a straddling pay period by work date rather than pay date.
