How to Rebuild Your Credit Blog Series – Part 4 Having Too Many Credit Products and Too Much Debt
This is the fourth blog in a 4 part blog series about how to rebuild your credit. When you accumulate too much debt or have too many credit products, this can harm your credit. Credit card companies are aggressive, using marketing points programs, promotion and incentives to entice consumers to take out a credit card. […]
How to Rebuild Your Credit Blog Series – Part 3 Credit Balances That Are At, Close to, or Over
This is the third part in a four part blog series about how to rebuild your credit. Learning how to rebuild your credit begins with learning how to manage it. One major impact to your credit score is when you have credit card products that are close to, at, or over their limits. Many people […]
How to Rebuild Your Credit Blog Series – Part 2 Late Payments and Defaults to Creditors
This is the second part in a four part blog series about how to rebuild your credit. If you have made late payments on your credit card or have defaulted on debts to creditors this will have a severe impact on your credit that will not resolve itself until you deal with the debt you […]
How to Rebuild Your Credit Blog Series – Part 1 Too Many Applications for Credit
This is the first part of a four part blog series about how to rebuild your credit. Many people don’t realize how important credit is until it is damaged. Once credit is damaged, it takes a long time to rebuild, and if you want to know how to rebuild your credit the first thing you […]
Canada Revenue Agency Forms and Requests: – Beware
If you have a tax debt that you cannot pay in full, you should be very careful dealing directly with the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA). In fact, many agencies, including law firms, advise people who have large tax debts not to deal with the Canada Revenue Agency directly. Why? Because CRA agents are hired by […]
How to Make a Credit Card Debt Settlement
When credit card debt begins to build up it can become very difficult to pay off. Credit cards bear monthly compound interest so if you get into a routine of making minimum monthly payments, the interest can sometimes be as much as the payment that you make. The end result is that you make a […]
The Canada Revenue Agency Consequences of Missing the Income Tax Deadline
In Canada, this year’s Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) income tax deadline was April 30th, 2012. The CRA’s income tax deadline is the last date that individual Canadian taxpayers can file their annual income tax returns with the CRA without incurring penalties and interest. Corporations are not subject to this deadline and have their own year-end […]
Canada Revenue Agency Collections Authority and How to Stop Them
Thousands of Canadians owe money to the Canada Revenue Agency. Thousands more will fall behind filing their tax returns, hoping that by not filing their returns they can buy time to come up with a way to pay the tax that they know they will owe. What many people don’t realize is that whether you […]
Sued in the Small Claims Court? What Happens Next?
There are over 90,000 new Small Claims Court Actions filed in Ontario each year and more than 150,000 Small Claims Court actions filed throughout Canada. Small Claims Court actions are usually filed by creditors like banks, finance companies and the collection agencies who represent them. Court Actions are also filed by individuals and businesses who […]
CRA “Requirement to Pay Issued” – What is it and what can you do?
If you owe money to the Canada Revenue Agency they have many resources at their disposal to collect the money from you. One very common resource that they deploy is called a “Requirement to Pay.” A CRA “Requirement to Pay” is a document that the Canada Revenue Agency will send to a third party, like […]