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Making Tax Payments with Credit Cards
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By Julia Maupin |
Nothing can be predicted in our life and nothing is as certain as taxes. But the time of taxes is the most awful one for most Americans. Tax time is quite the contrary of Christmas time that is so loved by all Americans. It is really unpleasant to give your hard-earned money to the Government. Of course we know that this money goes to necessary causes but it is really difficult to give your money thinking of some new road to be build or a park to be created. Luckily now you can be rewarded for paying taxes. You are advised to apply for a credit card that offers your rewards for paying taxes.
You can take into consideration Discover or American Express credit cards that are designed especially for tax payers. Now every time you pay taxes to the Government you can be rewarded by getting points, airline miles and cash back.
For example best credit cards by American Express offer membership rewards points for every dollar you pay for taxes with the card. Visa United Mileage by Chase Bank lets you earn points and miles when you use this card for paying taxes. Still, there are several drawbacks of paying taxes with credit cards.
If you are determined to pay taxes with credit cards don't forget that you need to pay a convenience fee. It is about 2.5% of the whole amount of paid taxes.
Still you can pay much less. If you obtain Visa or MasterCard credit card the fee for you will be $2.95.
If you are the owner of the credit card issued by American Express you can use your Membership points for paying the convenience fee. Every dollar paid for the convenience fee is 200 points.
American Government began to accept credit cards for tax payments since 1999 and now the amount of people using this method of paying taxes is increasing day by day. Financial experts say that this number will be more in 2008 as it is the time when businesses will be allowed to pay taxes with credit cards.
If you are responsible and are sure that you will manage to pay back to your credit card company but it doesn't suitable for you to write checks and mail them, the perfect variant for you is to make tax payments using your credit card.
You should take into consideration that tax payments are not small and you have to be extremely careful not to face bad credit history. Pay taxes and profit from your credit card. |
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 Added: Thu Aug 07, 2008 2:36 am GMT |
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