Thursday, September 9th, 2010

Welcome back to Money Management Tips. I just though you might to know that i have now added incestives for the people that leave useful comments both for me and other readers. Thanks for visiting! The British electorate went to the polls yesterday hoping to elect a new set of  MPs to govern the United [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]