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Downsizing your home

Downsizing your home

Downsizing at a glance Downsizing your home can reduce the size of your mortgage and ongoing running costs in some situations, but buying and selling costs can add up.  Your equity and loan to value ratio (LVR) can affect your next loan options and costs, including whether lenders mortgage insurance

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Grifting, not gifting! Avoid dodgy donations

Grifting, not gifting! Avoid dodgy donations

Spot the warning signs of barter credit tax schemes before they cost you. This tax time, it’s important to steer clear of a Arrangements to improperly access deductions for donations of ‘barter credits’, the tax scheme involves an individual or business paying for access to barter credits and donating them to

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Australian scam victims could get rapid ,000 refunds.

Australian scam victims could get rapid $3,000 refunds.

Australians scammed out of A$3,000 or less could be able to claim automatic reimbursement from banks, phone companies or tech companies, under – $3,000 starts to look like an oddly low threshold. Who would win under the new proposal? The federal government has just released new details of its Scam

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