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Michigan Retailers Association offers three dozen college scholarships

LANSING – Michigan Retailers Association is offering approximately 36 college scholarships this spring through the annual competition funded by its Michigan Retailers Foundation.

The scholarships are available for the 2016-17 academic year to the families of MRA member businesses and their employees.

Gov’t Affairs News – cigar tax cap, med sync and more

Cigar tax-cap discussions echo Main Street Fairness arguments

The House Appropriations Committee heard testimony Wednesday on SB 476, a bill that would ensure the 50-cent tax cap remains in place for individual cigars.

Don’t be a target in new EMV world

As most of you are aware (perhaps painfully), there has been a big change in the relationship between merchants that accept credit cards and the banks that issue them. This “liability shift” happened October 1 and impacts face-to-face payment transactions involving cards with an EMV chip on the front.