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Form 943: The Key to Cannabis Cultivator Taxes

When filing taxes, cannabis cultivators have a major decision to make when faced with the question: “Will you be Filing 940/941 or 943 forms
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Dispensary Cost Optimization: The Key to Doubling Profit Margins

Did you know that COGS/inventory account for up to 50% of a Profit & Loss Statement for a dispensary? This is the biggest overlooked
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Get Your Money Right: Keys to Landing a Cannabis Credit Line

At every level of today’s cannabis industry, accessing the capital necessary to grow your business is one of the most consistently frustrating obstacles operators
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Cannabis Administration and Opportunity Act: What You Need to Know

On July 14th, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer presented a newly revised proposal for a comprehensive cannabis reform bill in the United States. The
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Workarounds to Cannabis Advertising Obstacles

Less than a year after legal medical cannabis began arriving to Oklahoma in 2019, seven dispensaries found themselves in a new kind of jail
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The Real Reason Federal Lawmakers are Reluctant to Repeal 280E

When congressional lawmakers first conceived the obscure federal tax rules known as 280E in the early 1980s, the goal was to strip drug kingpins
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How to Prepare to Sell Your Cannabis Business

The $2.1 billion Trulieve-Harvest acquisition is paving the way for a boom of M&A activity in the cannabis industry. 2021 may very well be
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How to Turn Around Cannabis Business Performance

The difficulty of turning a profit in today’s cannabis industry can sometimes feel insurmountable. Punishing federal and state tax regimes, the lack of intrastate
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Top Tips: Reporting and Bookkeeping for Cannabis Dispensaries

In our experience serving 600+ cannabis clients throughout the US, we’ve observed that only 3 out of 10 dispensaries do an adequate job of

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