We know that houses, cars etc can be repossesed for non-payment of agreed installments but prime steam ans sausages? Butcher Leon Schumacher ‘repossesed’ £400 worth of prime steak and sausages from an Aachen restaurant, snatching the meat from the plate of astonished diners. The raid followed a row over payment. “We’re not sure if he broke the [...]
Death By iPad?
April 22, 2010 By Leave a Comment
The rush to acquire the latest ‘fancy-shmancy’ gadget has been happening for a long time. In the recent past, it happened with the ipod, iphone, itoy, ipet, iloan and all those christmas ‘must-haves’ where people had to queue for hours, and sometimes even days, just to get these items. Having the latest products is not [...]
‘Sin’ Tax Avoidance Made Easy
April 19, 2010 By Leave a Comment
At Church yesterday, my Pastor, Rev Richard Jama, during his message for the day, made a statement which prompted me quickly put on my ‘money management cap’. He said “Sin is expensive; it is more expensive to live a sinful life than to live a righteous one”. Not only in the eventual consequences of your [...]
Funny Friday – 1st Class Thief
April 16, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Poland – A first-class crook climbed into large parcels and posted himself to businesses, then burgled them at night. Stanislaw Muchy, 39, would then seal himself and the loot in another box addressed to his Warsaw home for his getaway. After being tipped-off, police said: ‘We arranged a special delivery of our own.’ Edgar Watson [...]
Eight Sensible Ways To Use Your Tax Refund
April 12, 2010 By Leave a Comment
I usually encounter the question of what to do with extra lump sum money when you need to save and also have debt outstanding. As the tax refund is one of the ways people can get lump-sum cash apart from inheritance and lottery wins, i’ll use that to answer the question here. So what should [...]
Stupid Tax #4 – Get A ‘Refund-Anticipation’ Loan!
April 9, 2010 By Leave a Comment
To many people getting a tax refund is as if they’ve won the lottery (not that i advocate playing that). They behave as if it is new money. Wake up! this is your money that the government has been using free of any charge from you. The worst part of this kind of thinking is [...]
Funny Friday – Honey Trap
April 9, 2010 By Leave a Comment
United States – Police chasing a speeding motorist ended up making the easiest of arrests. After the suspect abandoned his car, he jumped over a fence only to land in the yard of a women’s prison in Cleveland, Ohio. I believe just getting a speeding ticket and some points on his license would have been [...]
Stupid Tax #3 – Paying Your Tax With High-Interest Credit Card.
April 8, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Truth be told, what you owe the Taxman – the Taxman will get! But to use a high-interst credit card to pay the taxes may not make too much sense. Although paying this way is a still better than not paying your taxes at all, but you should not just plunge into further debt to [...]
Tax Refund Notification Scam
April 7, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Anytime there is a tax deadline somewhere in the world, out come all sorts of phishing emails sent to defraud people of their hard-earned money. Just today i got one the screen image is shown below: The URL for the “refund request” led to: http://www.marykellykilims.co.nz/includes/hmrc/refundportal.htm – which is obviously not the Taxman’s website. The Inland [...]
Income Tax or “Stupid Tax”
April 6, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Look around anywhere and you can certainly get the feeling that the tax season is here again as it always does every year. If you wake me up from sleep and demand to know about taxes from me, i will ask you “which one – Income or Stupid?”. Understanding taxation requires more than a genius [...]
Jesus Is My King
April 4, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Today is Easter Sunday – the day we celebrate the resurrection of our Lord and Saviour – Jesus Christ – Son of the living God. Want to know more about Him? What this video:
Funny Friday – Drunk Bride And Gloom
April 2, 2010 By Leave a Comment
I know this is not April Fool’s day and i am not fooling you either. Do you know that a bride actually slept through her wedding. Yes, It is true. Siobhan Watson passed out after an wedding-eve drink and ended up sleeping right through her big day. By the time she got to the church, [...]
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