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Please help - best way to transfer money to Russia?

Hi, We've been paying a contractor in Russia via Payoneer for the last couple years - no problems - but recently got an ominous letter from Payoneer suggesting that unless we become an "affiliate" of Payoneer we may not be able to continue loading money to our contractors debit card. Something sounded ominous about this - and I think we may need a better solution for transferring money. What...

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I have no idea - but that is a cool theme for sure.

ASK HN: Best way to calculate sales tax for ecommerce

What are the best tools out there for an ecommerce site/cart (fully custom, not magento or anything like that) to estimate and report sales tax for its customers? We've been looking at things like zip2tax which would give us tables to download and store internally, but curious what others have done that worked well? I imagine with these tables we'll just check the city/zip code and then based...

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