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My $24,000 credit card tax payment this morning processed with a flat fee of $2.50 instead of the usual 1.87%, for a savings of $446.30. Here’s how.
Tax day is right around the corner, and so is the year’s first quarterly Estimated Tax deadline of April 15th.
Many people pay their taxes due via credit card. It can be worth it for earning credit card initial bonuses, threshold spending bonuses and credit towards status, and for high rebate cards even just earning the spread between cost and reward value
I’m sick and tired of credit card coupon books, especially when they’re used to justify annual fee increases. Some consumers can make the economics work. The economics of the Entertainment Book used to work, too! There can be value here but the approach doesn’t respect my time, and it isn’t premium.
Chase is making changes to its Priority Pass cards, eliminating part of the benefit. Starting in July cardmembers will no longer receive credits at airport restaurants that are part of the program.
While this month’s Bilt Rent Day offers will be great for some members, I can’t get excited. It isn’t that I don’t care about fitness!
Robinhood Markets has acquired and rebranded the X1 credit card as the Robinhood Gold Card, offering enticing cash back rewards, a unique metal card upgrade for referrals, and strategic financial benefits to deepen user engagement with Robinhood’s ecosystem.
Visa and Mastercard have entered into a $30 billion anti-trust settlement with retailers over card interchange fees. Readers are asking, as one put it, “Is this the end of credit card rewards?”
Bilt Rewards has just added Alaska Airlines as a 1:1 transfer partner. And this spring they will launch earning triple Alaska Airlines miles when paying rent through Bilt with an Alaska Airlines Visa
Signature card. So you’ll earn 3 Alaska miles per dollar on rent – for a fee. Plus this makes it possible to even earn Alaska Airlines elite status just by paying rent.
At 2 transferrable points per dollar, $65 million would translate to 130,000,000 points.
Wells Fargo has entered the chat. They’ve announced themselves in travel rewards, and transferring bank points to airline miles and hotel points. They’ve launched a rich new travel credit card, and launched points transfers to airline and hotel loyalty programs for both this high-earner and existing cards.
The Wells Fargo Autograph Journey Visa Card is a brand new product. It’s pretty compelling in its own right as a travel and dining card, but offers some great possibilities in combination with other Wells cards now that their branded portfolio of points cards all come with point transfers.
Gary Leff is one of the foremost experts in the field of miles, points, and frequent business travel -- a topic he has covered since 2002.
Co-founder of frequent flyer community InsideFlyer.com, emcee of the Freddie Awards, and named one of the "World's Top Travel Experts" by Conde' Nast Traveler (2010-Present) Gary has been a guest on most major news media, profiled in several top print publications, and published broadly on the topic of consumer loyalty. More About Gary »
