The source of the payment was Franklin Haney, a Chattanooga developer and longtime Gore supporter, who last year became involved in a controversial Washington building project called the Portals.

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While the tax may be imposed on the business owners, in many cases the only source for payment of the tax would be to take funds from the business.

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This has been a source of pain for credit card payment companies as well as banks as the credit card business represents a sizable part of their business models and the mobile payment systems were often advertised as significantly cheaper alternatives to the card payment systems.

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