Mary Anne e-mailed, after reading my last column about estate debts, asking how to stop incessant collection efforts by the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA). Her brother died four years ago with nothing of assets and a debt owing to the CRA. I’m guessing the CRA found out she was brother’s executor when she applied for…
Mary Anne e-mailed, after reading my last column about estate debts, asking how to stop incessant collection efforts by the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA). Her brother died four years ago with nothing of assets and a debt owing to the CRA. I’m guessing the CRA found out she was brother’s executor when she applied for…
CNN — Major League Baseball and the Internal Revenue Service are investigating amid allegations surrounding Los Angeles Dodgers two-way star Shohei Ohtani and his longtime interpreter Ippei Mizuhara. The investigations are underway just two days after Mizuhara, a longtime interpreter for the Japanese baseball superstar, was fired after the player’s lawyers accused him of “massive…
Bridget ArcherThe conversations are not going to be less hard to have if we don’t actually get on and have those conversations and resolve these issues rather than pretending that they don’t exist. Leon ComptonBridget Archer, I know your knitting is concentrated on state sort of federal issues, are you worried about the state budget…
Searches for gambling applications on the Google Play store and Apple AppStore have seen an increase over the past 12 months 49% of London respondents are funding their gambling activity with credit products – 2.2 times higher than the national average 20% see gambling as a quick fix to money problems Lowell’s recent Financial Vulnerability…
In view of the strained financial situation of the Himachal Pradesh government, Principal Advisor (Innovation, Digital Technologies and Governance) to Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu, Gokul Butail has voluntarly decided not to draw his monthly salary of Rs 2.5 lakh until the end of the 2024-25 fiscal year. Butail will only accept an honorarium of…
Three million graduates will have their student loans reduced by an average of $1200 in next week’s budget, but not have any extra money in their pockets. However, in an unrelated move, hundreds of thousands will also be financially better off when repayment thresholds to student loans are changed on July 1. Loading… Read the…
Debt Consolidation: Personal Loans If you can’t pay off your credit card, one option could be to consolidate your high-interest credit card debt into a type of credit with a lower interest rate, such as a personal loan. However, Barton says your credit score will be a factor in what sort of interest rate you’d…
Key Points More than three million Australians have been hit with an increase to their student loan debt due to indexation. The education minister has told students the increase will drop due to forthcoming legislation. But there have been calls for the government to change indexation so it’s not applied on amounts already repaid. More…
University students are a step closer to having $3 billion of HECS debt wiped as the government moves to reform how student debt is indexed. (Source: Getty) Anthony Albanese has revealed the government’s bill to wipe $3 billion off Australia’s collective HECS debt has finally been introduced to parliament. The measure was announced prior to…