Archive for the ‘Personal Finance’ Category

Tax Rebates from Gambling in the US

In today’s financial meltdown, income tax rebates are one of the ways by the government to help stimulate the economy. In the past years, the US tax recovery has not exactly helped the economy to boost up as it had been expected to do, but many people have been helped to get through difficult financial [...]

Income That Can Not Be Taxed

Here are some types of income that you do not have to pay tax for: Company’s Compensation The following compensations paid by your company is tax free: health insurance premiums, hospitalization insurance premiums, life insurance coverage of $50,000 or less, cafeteria plans and education fees. Your company can also give you discount fare cards or [...]

Always Pay Attention When Applying for Auto Insurance

It’s very painful when you are driving an expensive car, and that car goes and collides into other car. Auto insurance is something which a driver cannot afford to leave without. Traffic nowadays has become very dangerous and so I believe that having car insurance is really a good investment to make. Although many people [...]

Saving Money For A Luxurious Vacation In Difficult Times

A few days ago I read Jonathan Burton’s article titled ‘How you can save more money when money is tight‘. In his article he tells the story of Christopher Pollard whose fiancee had just been laid off and they were still looking forward to their luxurious vacation to Europe. The first paragraph that mentioned about [...]

Be Inspired: $10k Per Month From Blogging

Today I just stumbled across an article about one of the top 10 personal finance blogs based on traffic. The article is about Bargaineering.com, a personal finance blog that is so successful that the owner decided to leave his 9-5 job for full-time blogging. Jim Wang makes $10k per month from his blog now, 4 [...]

Learning From The Best: Trump and Kiyosaki

In today’s global economic crisis, the world’s toughest survivors through financial hardships have come together to share with their readers how they have risen above tough times, so their readers may too. Robert Kiyosaki’s Rich Dad website has posted some of the topics in the book, discussed between Kiyosaki and Trump. Although Robert Kiyosaki and [...]

3 Strategies In Fighting Your Debt

The first thing you should do when you are up to the neck in debt, is stop denying that you are in financial trouble. The next would be stop blaming somebody else for being in debt so deep. Many people would blame their credit card company or parents or wife or kids for bringing you [...]

How Your Debt Jeopardizes Your Eternal Destiny

From the 9-10 December, I went to a church conference in Jakarta which was called the “Conference of the Holy of Hollies”.  One of the most important thing that George Annadorai, one of the speakers in the conference, taught us was the connection between debt and destiny. As we all know, in the Bible God [...]

The Debt Racers: Women in Red

This morning I was browsing on MSN.com and stumbled on an interesting forum about money and personal finance there. This specific forum got my attention because of the name, “The Women in Red Racers.” The ‘racers’ apparently is a group of women in the Women In Red Forum who focus on ‘racing’ to get out [...]

Tips To Cut Your Car Insurance Costs

Everybody wants to save money on anything nowadays, even expenses that are fixed such as auto insurance. In 2008, the insurance cost for your car was fairly stable with an average increase of 2.5-3%. However, this does not necessarily mean that you can not find ways to cut your auto insurance premiums. The truth of [...]