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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Stopping a Garnishment of Wages in Canada

Thousands of Canadians have their wages garnished each year for a wide range of reasons. A garnishment of wages in Canada can occur as a result of unpaid family responsibility, judgements that occurred as a result lawsuits (in Small Claims...

Dealing with Debt Part 3 – Divorce Debt in Canada

Canada has the 8th highest divorce rate in the world. Human Resources Development Canada has reported that the proportion of marriages expected to end in divorce has fluctuated between 35% and 42% in recent years. In 2008, 40.7% of marriages...

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