Archive for February, 2009

Revolving Cards

February 27th, 2009

The paper provides revolving holder some cash to spend immediately, from shopping at the supermarket full of petrol, but hidden costs and fees, which at times proved too much.

In practice, the paper provides the same services revolving card balance, but has the characteristic of “contain” a trust, i.e. a loan. This paper offers the opportunity to spend money independently of the available funds to the account and repay its debt in installments.

Difference credit card compared to a traditional view is that payment is not made immediately to purchase the paper but in a longer period agreed in the contract. So you buy now but pay later with an obligation to pay off the debt at interest rates that now has come to touch the 17-20%.

The “Blue American Express”, the paper “Barclaycard”, the “Charter Aura” of “Findomestic Bank” and the paper “Bancoposta rechargeable” offered by Italian Post Office, but managed by Agos, are some of the most famous revolving simulative shopping, often forgetting that at the conclusion of the contract has established an upper limit, known as “trust”, beyond which you cannot go, on penalty of commission salty.

When you request a revolving credit card should carefully consider the actual cost related to the possession and use of services it provides, even if it is not always easy to see how much really, because the assets are numerous (interest charges, annual expenses, costs of collection installment), and are not easily integrated into a single measure of cost.

Personal income tax deduction of 20% Furniture and fixtures

February 16th, 2009

The tax of 20% on the purchase of furniture, appliances, TV and PC, designed the furnishings of refurbished buildings was confirmed by conversion into law of the Decree Law 5 / 09.

The rebate is a tax deduction equal to 20% gross amount paid by February 7, 2009 to 31 December 2009 for’s purchase of furniture, household energy class not less than A +, televisions and computers.

In order to use the personal income tax rebate, however, the expenditure must be documented and goods purchased must be directed to furnish a house under renovation construction, to reduce to 36%. The property to be furnished must have been the subject of planned maintenance, restoration and rehabilitation attachment of building renovation, which began on 1 July 2008, and for this treatment, the person must use the deduction of 36%. Restructuring must be later than 1 July 2008 and to verify this, it should be considered the starting date of works shown.

You may qualify for the deduction of 36%, irrespective of the category building intervention, even for simple repairs of unsafe equipment, such as, for example, replacement of the gas pipe or repair of a malfunctioning outlet (Circular 6 February 2001, n . 13 Revenue Agency).

The purchase of subsidized goods may be made at any time, but must be paid on 7 February 2009 to 31 December 2009. Payment must be made by bank transfer or check with the same conditions for the deduction on the building renovation.
The maximum expenditure facilitate, on which to calculate 20% of personal income tax deduction is equal to 10 thousand Euros. Thus, the maximum tax reduction is 2 thousand Euros. The total deduction must be spread over five equal annual installments.

Tips for shopping: calm and intelligence

February 5th, 2009

How many times in search of an apartment across the agency told us: “hurry that there are other buyers,” “look that the houses are just a few days on the market” or words very similar.
All words used to give us some ‘pressure and push the purchase of an apartment.

But as he writes colleague 100casa house purchase can be for life and cannot be done on the spot without thinking too much. It is not like buying a pair of shoes.
That’s why I too at the suggestion of a long and detailed consideration before buying a house.

I advise you, before launching in the vision of the apartments, to create a card: write up a budget and divide under the sheet I want / I would not.

In one column write down what you would certainly that there is in your new home, the other sure thing there must be (all in comparison with the budget you want to spend).
Warning!

Do not you dwell only on this list, because they could hide the pitfalls that only the seller knows you from unsuspecting customers and then you end up with a big problem to manage?

  • It’s not bad to ask the neighbors of the house as the area in which we buy and if there are problems of various kinds.
  • See the house at different hours of the day to understand how the life goes on in that neighborhood.
  • Understand the value for money for not taking a huge rip-off.
  • Thanks to camera phones cannot hurt to make photos of the house, so as to compare them with other views above and can then judge later with more calm.
  • Finally Take always a suitable period before buying a house, so that we can think and rethink 1000 times.

These are just the first considerations that came to my mind and which struck me as most important (possibly more to be added in future). But if you want, thanks to the comments, you can add your advice on buying a house. Let us know.