Lighter Capital

OCTOBER 23, 2020

Previously, we discussed the importance of knowing how much of your customer base is churning each month. But knowing the customer churn rate (CCR) doesn’t give you the entire picture. It is equally important to know how much of your monthly recurring revenue (MRR) is associated with that churned customer base. Despite this metric’s importance, the SaaS startup world is still debating exactly how to calculate it.

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Shuster & Co.

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Marriages are a time of celebration and happiness. Sadly, between 40% and 50% of American marriages end in divorce or separation. This rate has held steady for decades. However, the current COVID-19 pandemic has presented a series of new, daunting challenges for families to face. During self-quarantining orders, most families in the US are facing increased stress, financial hardships, childcare issues, and uncertainty about the future.

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Appraisal Rights

OCTOBER 22, 2020

The valuation of companies in the ever-growing cannabis space has become an increasing area of focus within this valuation sphere. Cannabis presents a highly unique valuation landscape given the regulatory environment, increasing popular acceptance of recreational as well as medical usage, and the expanding product mix as between flower, oils and edibles, and challenges and opportunities facing vertically integrated businesses trying to find the right balance as between their cultivation, lab &

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ThomsonReuters

OCTOBER 22, 2020

QUESTION: What is “transparency in coverage,” and does it apply to our company’s group health plan? ANSWER: “Transparency in coverage” refers to an Affordable Care Act provision that requires health plans and insurers to disclose certain price and cost-sharing information to participants, beneficiaries, enrollees, and, in some cases, the public. The requirements apply to most insured and self-insured group health plans, and to insurers, but grandfathered health plans are exempt.

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Speaker: Susan Spencer, Principal of Spencer Communications

Intent signal data can go a long way toward shortening sales cycles and closing more deals. The challenge is deciding which is the best type of intent data to help your company meet its sales and marketing goals. In this webinar, Susan Spencer, fractional CMO and principal of Spencer Communications, will unpack the differences between contact-level and company-level intent signals.

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ThomsonReuters

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Rev. Rul. 2020-24 (Oct. 16, 2020); Rev. Proc. 2020-46 (Oct. 16, 2020). Rev. Rul. Rev. Proc. The IRS has issued two pieces of guidance affecting qualified plan distributions to state unclaimed property funds. One addresses the withholding and reporting obligations when a distribution is made to an unclaimed property fund. The other makes it easier for individuals who collect their benefit from a state unclaimed property fund to roll over their benefits.

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ThomsonReuters

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Data Marketing Partnership, LP v. U.S. Dep’t of Labor, 2020 WL 5759966 (N.D. Tex. 2020). Available at [link]. This case involved the ERISA status of health coverage offered by a partnership’s general partner to thousands of individual limited partners. The partnership specialized in the production and sale of electronic data collected from individual limited partners, through software installed on their personal electronic devices, as they used the internet.

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ThomsonReuters

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Rev. Proc. 2020-43 (Oct. 16, 2020). Available at [link]. The IRS has announced that the maximum amount that can be newly made available for plan years beginning after December 31, 2020, and before January 1, 2022, under an excepted benefit health reimbursement arrangement (EBHRA) will not change and remains at $1,800. The announcement also indicates that IRS intends to publish the adjusted amount for plan years beginning after December 31, 2021, and before January 1, 2023, by June 1, 2021.

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ThomsonReuters

OCTOBER 20, 2020

When the COVID-19 pandemic prompted widespread stay-at-home orders, companies all over the country suddenly found themselves managing a largely mobile workforce. Remote work has become the new normal for much of the U.S. economy – at least for now. Many companies are discovering that this massive shift in work behavior may also have unforeseen tax implications.

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