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Can You Pay Taxes With a Credit Card?

A large percentage of U.S. taxpayers get a tax refund from the federal government each year, but if you are part of the percentage who owe, you may be wondering can you pay taxes with a credit card? In 2020, for the 2019 tax season,...

Balance Transfer Tricks | What Credit Card Companies Don’...

Paying off your credit card bill and not having a balance is the best way to avoid interest charges – and one great way to avoid interest is to have one of these balance transfer tricks up your sleeve! There are right ways and...

How To Increase Your Credit Limit – The Right Way

Asking for a higher credit limit can feel awkward. Some cardholders think asking for more credit makes them seem desperate. (This isn’t really an issue.) Others think they’ll hurt their credit score by asking for a credi...

How Medical Credit Cards Work

Being told by a dentist that you need a root canal is bad enough. Figuring out how to pay for it only adds to the pain. Some dentists and other health care professionals such as eye doctors, audiologists, and even veterinarians offe...

Should I Cut Up My Credit Cards?

“Should I cut up my credit cards?”, we hear it a lot. We will get down to why Dave Ramsey may be wrong. First of all, this isn’t a “bash Dave Ramsey” post. Rather, I greatly admire Dave Ramsey and his o...

Secured Credit Cards To Build Credit

If you are unable to get a regular credit card at even a low limit, you may need to look into a secured credit card to build credit. There’s an age-old saying that, “it takes money to make money.” Well, it also applies to credit car...

Orchard Bank Credit Cards | NOT a Scam!

Update: Orchard Bank Credit Cards are no longer available. Operating as a subsidiary of HSBC, most of HSBC’s credit card business was acquired by Capital One in 2012. I have had about a dozen people ask me if Orchard Bank cred...

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