New logistics and fulfillment matching services have sales tax implications

The advent of sharing economy B2C services has spawned new B2B services for businesses that have a significant e-commerce operation.  For example, Darkstore is a company that offers a mobile app containing shipping and logistics providers in a database.  In fact their website advocates “same day service fulfillment” for e-commerce sites.  This has obvious implications

New device may solve short term rental noise issues

David Krauss, the founder of NoiseAware, has developed technology that detects party house activity, excessive noise and alerts the short term rental (STR) operator before the neighbours complain and the cops show up.  Marketed as a “smoke detector for noise”, the device works by connecting wirelessly to the residence’s network, and will notify by email

What to expect after regulating Short-Term-Rentals

Many municipalities and counties are considering what to do regarding short term vacation rentals in their neighbourhoods.  Here are some reasons in favour of a regulated, licensed environment: Level the playing field for the Hospitality Industry AirBnb is currently seeking funding at a valuation of $30 Bn, which puts its valuation larger than Hilton Worldwide

What makes us better at short term rental compliance

The short term rental compliance industry has recently sprung up as a major concern amongst cities and counties in North America.   The challenge of ensuring compliance is that many of the major short term rental listing sites do not fully identify the name of the operator/manager and address of the properties offered.  Several vendors out

Harmari by LTAS Awarded Contract for Santa Fe Short Term Rental Compliance

November 1, 2016 LTAS Technologies Inc. is pleased to announce a contract in response to the City of Santa Fe Request for Proposal for Short-Term Rental (STR) Compliance Software and Services. Santa Fe selected LTAS and its Harmari™ Taxcrawler service to analyze, identify via public record, and continuously monitor all Short Term Rentals advertised on

Capturing and recording Snapchat video off iphone

Recently at a law enforcement conference, a crime analyst colleague was curious what technique would allow her to capture a Snapchat video as part of her investigations.  Snapchat is a photo / video sharing app which disappear after being viewed by the recipient.  It is very popular among the under-20 crowd that have been shying

Announcing Harmari Search version 2.7

Harmari Search is happy to announce version 2.7 has been released.  Here is a summary of recent improvements Download PDF of ad directly from URL to email Add a price filter on price that removes commas Address location bug Autotrader ‘show phone number’ button bug with bulk searches Correlate ads by items for sale Enterprise

Harmari Training

If you are interested in learning about all the new features to combat fraud and criminal activity online that have appeared in WIST (for Facebook, and LinkedIn) over the past year, please sign up for one of our training courses. We will send you a link to the Gotomeeting webinar after receiving this response. Thank

Skycrawler now detects boats

For tax and revenue agencies who wish to identify unpaid use tax on high-valued assets, Skycrawler has taken a new step: boats.  Now with this revolutionary computer vision technology, Skycrawler is able to identify the presence of one or more watercraft and the associated ownership.  The state can then cross-check these locations for a vehicle