While it's never a good idea to
pay interest on debt just to get a tax benefit — since you can never receive a discount that will match the total cost of holding the debt itself — the truth is many small businesses need to carry over balances on their credit cards to keep running and, ideally, to grow.
Not exact matches
For instance, if you
just have a couple of credit card bills but you have plenty of disposable income to make extra payments each month, consolidating your credit card
debt to a personal loan with a lower
interest rate could save you money
on interest and allow you to
pay off your
debt faster.
Just keeping the lights
on, i.e. simply
paying interest on the national
debt, plus all the mandatory entitlement programs, burns through almost 100 % of their tax revenue.
Maybe our wise and patriotic politicians will start selling off our military assets
just like they did with our manufacturing base so they can
pay the tsunami of
interest on our
debt and China will take over as the world's police?
If you have different
debts, you may focus
on paying down aggressively the
debt with the highest
interest rate while you make
just minimum payment
on the
debts with lowest
interest rates.
Out - of - control spending has increased the US
debt to over $ 20 trillion with the US
paying $ 73.9 million to China every day
just to cover
interest on debt owed.
Plus it takes the government more than 20 % of tax revenue each year
just to
pay INTEREST on its
debt — and that's at a time when rates are actually NEGATIVE.
For some it is
just the thought of taking
on debt, while others they would rather
pay cash because they are averse to
paying interest.
This includes borrowing $ 1.9 billion
just to
pay the
interest on this
debt.
sorry this is a bit of the subject does anyone know what the situation with our overall
debt is at the moment and what our repayments are i was under the impression that we are at about the # 245 million mark gross
debt and about # 97 net
debt are the stadium repayments lower now or something is the bonds
interest dropped lower inprice we were
paying something like # 20 - # 30 million in repayments but heard its down to about # 15 million per yr now i know we will have broken throught the # 300 million mark in revenue now i am guessing that contributes more to the transfer funds or if not what makes up the transfer funds in the club i.e deals or match day revenue plus cash in the bank which stands at a high level but must be
just in case we might default
on a payment we need heavy cash in hand to bail us out this side of the club really intrigues me as it is not a much talked about subject unless you are into that type of area of work or care about the general fianacial outcome of the club does anyone have more insight into our finances would be great to hear from anyone about this matter cheers gonerwineverything (because we are)
After all, not only have they left the country
paying # 120 million each day
just on the
interest on their
debt, but locally the Labour council has more than doubled council tax since 1997.
You will owe more money to the new lender, but by eliminating other more expensive
debt with the extra cash you
just received, you are actually saving thousands of dollars too because you will have to
pay lesser
interests on your overall
debt.
If the
interest rates
on your other
debt - car or student loan or mortgage - is higher than what you could earn by saving or investing (consider that the average annual inflation - adjusted historical return of the U.S. stock market is
just over 6 %), you'd be wise to
pay that down first too.
The
debt avalanche is
just like the snowball
debt method, except it focuses
on paying off the
debt with the highest
interest rate first, but like the snowball
debt method you continue to
pay the minimum for the rest of your loans.
We were
paying 19 % annual
interest on that
debt, which was
just insane.
For instance, if you are
paying 5 %
interest on your $ 50,000
debt, but then invest it for a return of
just 2 %, it would be better for you to
pay off the
debt that's at 5 %.
Debt management is a good plan for someone that is
just looking to get a lower
interest rate and
pay off their credit cards in a faster time - frame, than if they were to continue
paying minimum payments
on their own.
I suggest people
pay down all
debt before investing because I
just don't see people making average returns higher than the
interest rates
on the
debt.
What started as making ends meet or a couple of small purchases grew into thousands of dollars in
debt on a high
interest credit card, and it feels like you
just can't dig out from all of that expensive
interest you
pay each month.
If, based
on your overall financial situation, you can
pay off your
debt — but you
just need a temporary break — your creditor may choose to lower your minimum payments and / or your
interest rate for a certain amount of time.
I
just find it
interesting that our home loan is 4 %
interest yet recent grads have to
pay... basically anything, depending
on from whom they received their student loan
debt.
Can you imagine having to borrow not only to
pay the mortgage but to
just make the
interest payments
on your credit cards and other
debt?
We
just discussed how
interest rates can wreak havoc
on your
debt and the efforts to
pay it down.
Saving $ 10 a week might feel great, but it won't have nearly the impact of putting $ 40 a month into an IRA.Although I would treat the Best Buy
debt as being 20 %
interest now, beacuse if you're even one day late, you'll have to
pay interest on the full amount, not
just what's left.
Put your $ $ $ in an index fund and focus
on adding to it by saving as much as makes sense for your situation (Caveat: as long as you've
paid off your high
interest debt that is...,
just as you said early
on in the above).
Paying $ 50 a month
on the same account of
debt will shrink the time to
pay it off to less than two years, with an
interest cost of
just $ 139.
okay here's my two cents worth folks im up for renewal and have
just nagotiated a rate 5 yr variable1.75 persent or if i want a five yr fixed at 4.49 still quite a gap between fixed and variable here i believe i have a little lee way here apparently i was only interesed in variable and five yr fixed but i made it absulutly apparent to them that when lock in from a variable i get the whosale discounted rate at that time and written into the contract i kinda believe this the way the market is heading as we head out of ressesion and the bank of canada is going to make there move i believe coming up in june and
just to make this firm i do not believe the boc will raise rates in fast mode far from it will be slow process i don't care what the ecconmists are thinking we have to remember manufactering sector is reallt taking a hit
on the high dollar and don't forget our niegbours to the south how dependent our canada is with them i believe it will be a slow process a lot of people heve put themselves in a
debt load over these enormously low
interest rates but i may be wrong i think a variable is the way to go if you want to work
on that princibal at least should i say the say the short to medium term and betting that the bond markets stay put for the short to medium term - i have given enough
interest to the banks maybe i can
pay a little less at least fot the short to mediun term here i have not completly decided yet put i think im going variable although i wish my mtge was up a year ago that would have been
just great congradulations to all that did.
Sure, it may be tempting to only
pay $ 25 per month, but not only will you be accruing more and more
debt that will be tough to get out from underneath, but
paying only the minimum payment mostly
just covers the
interest on the principal balance instead of the actual principal balance.
Spend # 1,000 and then repay # 980, and you
pay a month's
interest on the entire # 1,000
debt, not
just the remaining # 20!
If you had
debt that is 4 % and you can
just let the balance grow and
pay 4 %
interest on that, why would you
pay it off early with cash?
We examined the effects of
paying just this amount
on an average credit card balance to see how long it would take to be totally
debt - free, and how much in
interest one would have to
pay over this period.
What happens is that you end up holding
on to that
debt for months,
paying off
just the high
interest fees.
If you
just leave the
debt on that card while you
pay it off, you could expect to
pay about $ 830 in
interest.
You've
just saved a lot of money (not only
on your mortgage but also future
interest on the $ 3,000 in likely high -
interest credit card
debt you've been inspired to
pay off).
If you have different
debts, you may focus
on paying down aggressively the
debt with the highest
interest rate while you make
just minimum payment
on the
debts with lowest
interest rates.
On the other hand, if your student loans have a high
interest rate or you
just prefer to aggressively tackle all of your
debt, definitely
pay those student loans off early.
Peter finally came to the realization that he would have to continue to work long past a comfortable retirement age
just to stay ahead of the
interest on the
debt and once retired, his pension income would not be sufficient to sustain his living expenses and
pay off the
debt.
This takes years off
paying down your
debt just by making your monthly payment; it also shaves away money wasted
on interest fees — sometimes thousands!
Ultimately, while
paying off a home is a noble achievement, it
just seems that the money used to do this would be better served
on other investments that create a higher rate of return then
interest rates
on personal mortgage
debt.
I
just wanted to add that I agree with the focus
on paying down
debt, and the higher the
interest rate, the higher the focus.
This allows you to focus
on paying off the actual
debt (principal), rather than
just the accrued
interest charges.
do you
just pay interest only
on all those
debt?
If you borrowed $ 2000 and bought stock with them, and if the dividend payments EXACTLY matched the
interest payments, you'd keep
paying on the
debt forever (not
just 1 year).
Default is easy; you
just stop
paying interest on your
debts.
That's right — company matching and tax incentives will far outweigh the
interest you will
pay on just about any type of consumer
debt.
I'm sitting here stuck with these high
interest rates
on my student loans, but I don't have enough
debt to refinance, and I don't make enough to
just pay them all off.
This buys you time to
pay off your balance as much as possible — or lets you
pay just the minimum payment while you focus your
debt payment
on other
debts with higher
interest rates.
What started as making ends meet or a couple of small purchases grew into thousands of dollars in
debt on a high
interest credit card, and it feels like you
just can't dig out from all of that expensive
interest you
pay each month.