Posted on December - 17 - 2009
Travel insurance firm covers airline failure
Direct Line travel insurance protects against airline failure. Read more…
Posted on December - 16 - 2009
Is Debt Consolidation Right For Me?
Start 2010 off the Right Way. Are you slowly sinking deeper into higher debt year after year? Now is the right time to start getting your finances under control. Start the year off debt consolidation and your monthly expenses could be reduced as much as 90%. There is no need for you to continue suffering when there is help available right now. You don’t have to carry the overwhelming weight of high interest rates all by yourself. Debt consolidation is the solution to making your monthly expenses easier to manage. Paying off all your loans and credit card bills is something you can accomplish.
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Posted on December - 16 - 2009
Charity concern over cheque withdrawal date
Campaigners are concerned about the proposed withdrawal of cheques. Read more…
Posted on December - 14 - 2009
Computing Self-Employment Tax
If you are self-employed, you will have to attach a Schedule C to your 1040 form. You will also need to compute your self-employment tax on a 1040 Schedule SE. You have to pay this tax if you work for yourself and your net earnings are $400 or more.
Net earnings include profit from a farm or non-farm business. If you own more than one business, your self-employment tax is based upon the net earnings from combining all of your business profits. The benefit of owning more than one business when filing this tax is that a loss from one business reduces the income from another. It is the full share of Medicare and Social Security taxes against your income.
Posted on December - 14 - 2009
Best-buy gas and electricity deal launched
The Sign Online 17 tariff carries a £907 annual cost. Npower has launched a new best-buy gas and electricity tariff, carrying an average cost for dual fuel customers of £907 per year.
The Sign Online 17 deal undercuts British Gas’ £928 Websaver 5 tariff, which was launched last week, and Ovo Energy’s £921 new energy plan, the previous chart-topper.
Npower’s decision to launch the deal reflects an increasingly competitive gas and electricity market, with price cuts driven by wholesale fuel market trends.
The tariff also offers a guarantee that prices will remain 2% or more below Npower’s standard gas and electricity deal.
However, customers are warned that the Sign Online 17 deal comes with £20 cancellation fees for both gas and electricity if customers switch to a new provider prior to April 2011.
On the other hand, British Gas’ Websaver 5 carries a discount rate of 6% or more from the firm’s standard tariff rates until February 2011.
Customers who wish to leave this deal before July 2010 are charged £30 if they transfer to another electricity provider and another £30 if they switch gas firm.
Npower retains 6.6 million gas and electricity customers throughout the UK, while British Gas has around 16 million.
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