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- Path: sparky!uunet!uunet.ca!wildcan!sq!sherman
- From: dave@lsuc.on.ca (David Sherman)
- Subject: Re: submitting federal tax returns via modem
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.033025.25657@sq.sq.com>
- Sender: sherman@sq.sq.com (David Sherman)
- Organization: The Law Society of Upper Canada
- References: <PHILIP.108.0@shark.stmarys.ca> <C184vC.KKJ@mach1.wlu.ca>
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- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 93 03:30:25 GMT
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- In <C184vC.KKJ@mach1.wlu.ca> scooper6@mach1.wlu.ca (stephen cooper) writes:
- > I may not bother with
- > CashBack because they take a 15% discount!
-
- Call it a discount if you like. I think of it as one of
- the few legalized forms of loansharking.
-
- The Tax Rebate Discounting Act allows tax discounters to keep 15%
- of the first $300 of refund and 5% after that. If you value highly
- the work of doing your return, which under the Act must be built
- into the price, maybe it's worthwhile. Otherwise, figure out the
- annual equivalent interest rate of the "discount" for a period of, say,
- 8 weeks, and ask yourself if you'd really go to the bank and borrow
- money at those kinds of interest rates in exchange for getting your
- tax return done.
-
- David Sherman
- Author, "Income Tax Research" (De Boo, 1989)
-