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In a Complex Tax Bill, Let the Hunt for Loopholes Begin The Internal Revenue Service had to warn retailers that cutting keys doesn’t make you a manufacturer. Neither does mixing paint, putting plants in the sun to grow or writing “Happy birthday” on a cake you didn’t bake. [NYT]
Tax Bill Forces Barclays to Take $1.2B Charge [CFO]
Sparkling Wine Producers Look Forward to Ringing in the New Year with Tax Cuts [BNA]
Florida, Texas may attract athletes after tax law change [WaPo]
Prepaid Real Property Taxes May Be Deductible in 2017 if Assessed and Paid in 2017 [IRS]
Ex-lawyer for pharma exec Shkreli convicted of aiding fraud scheme [Reuters]
The Worst Job in Technology: Staring at Human Depravity to Keep It Off Facebook [WSJ]
Thanks to Marc Cohodes, We’re Back to the Bad Old Days at Overstock.com [Sam Antar/WCF]
John Mayer theorizes that The Accountant is a Batman origin story [EW]
#TrumpDog [Qz]
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