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Earlier this year I bought a property in Sydney which has no smart meter. Before I became the owner and set up an account, the property had…

Although you are then paying for electricity for the freezer (unless you have solar+battery)

https://community.ebay.co.uk/t5/Seller-Central/EBay-plan-to-add-fees-for-buyers-hurts-businesses-even-further/m-p/7686659…

I knew this would not last very long. Ebay UK will introduce fees for buyers sometime in 2025.

You can block those in a website, hard / impossible to block in an app and more and more banks won't let you use a website without having…

I want to earn the max possible interest on every dollar every day.

"If the Australian Goverment or RBA wanted to protect the right to use & obtain cash" It's obvious that they don't want to do this.

Yes that sounds correct. But CGT is only halved if you own the property for 12 months total. So if you buy house A and live there for 3…

Been waiting for a code but the SYD prices for my dates have gone up so much, that even if there is a 30% off promo code this week it will…

If you owned the property for >12 months you get the discount

The correct forum to ask this question is https://www.propertychat.com.au/community/forums/accounting-tax.15/

Well you save $6 whether you try to stack GCs or just use them to pay bills and tax

Well in my case it was a digital only gc and they just asked me to show them the GC balance was 0. As the self checkout was frozen at a…

My self checkout froze at Kmart after taking the money off my gift card. The manager ran the transaction again at a manned checkout and put…

30% of the population of South Korea are some sort of Christian

Probably just a standard design and would cost the bank more to specify an ATM without the braille

You are rounding UP to the next whole dollar. It doesn't say round up to the next multiple of 10 cents or the next multiple of 50 cents.…

It will probably be prefilled

Interest showed up around 7.30pm

8.30am on the 2nd and still can't see my interest In fact as I used DD to pull in some money on Friday it tells me I "still need to deposit…

Next time use Wise. There shouldn't be any fees if it's a SEPA transfer. Wise charges a small loading on the exchange rate to convert AUD…

There's no problem with sending 250k out of rabo in one go, but you can only send on business days and if you set up the transfer in the…

Well I'm not a professional and I don't think accountants struggle with it. It's not that difficult to understand if you put some effort…

Because of the stupid way the tax laws are written, and as a consequence the way that Aus ETFs are designed, the amount of distribution you…

Better than people who aren't paying their tax

Well you can - they then just assume every credit to your bank accounts is "income" and tax you on it

Retailer B charged me $80 so the govt paid $75 and I paid $5. I was only with B for 3 weeks due to a screw up on my end - but as I got the…

The 4% off ww gift cards has nothing to do with this? You can't pay taxes with a ww gift card and you can't use a ww gift card to buy…

Put coins in first then you don't need to count them!