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321: Buying Goods Abroad: UK Customs
If you?re planning to bring goods into the UK from travels abroad or from purchasing on the Internet, there are some important customs laws that you should be aware of. Here?s a handy guide to the regulations.
Buying goods abroad
Entering the UK from the European Union (EU): if you buy any goods on which tax was paid in another EU member country, you don?t have to pay any more tax in the UK. However, goods such as alcohol and tobacco must be for personal use only ? i.e....
322: Home Insurance - Take Cover
Are your house contents insured? Really? Are you absolutely certain? If you?re under insured, from a legal point of view, you may as well not be insured at all. Your insurer may well simply scale back your claim by the amount you?re under-insured, but they would be within their rights to reject the claim totally.
Many people under-estimate the value of their personal possessions. If you go through your home, room by room, and make a rough mental note of the contents, you m...
323: Critical Illness Cover
Critical illness insurance offers cover for certain specified conditions such as cancer, heart problems, kidney failure, loss of limbs, etc., The cover is quite simple and straightforward, in that if you are diagnosed with one of the severe illnesses listed in your policy a payment is made. On average 35 conditions would be considered as falling into this category with most companies. There is just one company, Virgin, who vary the cover by offering severity-based payments wh...
324: Consolidate Debt For Financial Relief
Buried beneath bills? Overwhelmed by debt? If you've been making late payments lately--or missing them entirely--chances are you need some financial relief. Debt consolidation can help you get back on track by compiling all your debts into one monthly payment. Debt consolidation choices include paying bills with a Home Equity loan (or other loan), transferring all your balances to a single low-interest credit card, or signing up with a Debt Consolidation Company. But can it r...
325: Free Debt Consolidation Services - Are They Really Free?
Advertisements for free debt consolidation are popping up everywhere, but they bring up the vital question, ?Are they really free?? How can a service afford to offer free debt consolidation? If they aren?t making money, how can they stay in business? To learn the answers to these questions, you need to understand how a debt consolidation service works.
Debt consolidation companies negotiate with your creditors.
When you work with a consolidation service, they talk to yo...
326: Finding Affordable Health Insurance For The Self Employed
If you are fortunate enough to be self employed it can be extremely difficult to find affordable health insurance ? research indicates that many people don?t go self employed for this very reason. Generally speaking, if you are employed by a large company, you have more options for affordable health insurance through your company?s group plan.
If you are self employed and married, one easy option is to take out health insurance through your spouse. You may pay a little bit...
327: Car Insurance. Speeding Fines Play Havoc With Car Insurance Premiums
Speed cameras are now a regular feature on our roads, and have successfully reduced accidents, while raising millions of pounds in fines. Such is their prevalence, that one in four households have a driver that has been caught speeding at least once. With the conviction comes three points on the licence and a £60 fine ? but research carried out by the AA has shown that there are more costs to consider, and that?s on the car insurance.
The AA?s research showed that on avera...
328: Buy To Let
Are you thinking of investing in a buy-to-let property? A great number of people have done so already and according to the Council of Mortgage Lenders, individuals taking out buy to let mortgages rose by 483 per cent in the five years to 2005.
The vast majority of these landlords probably have no trouble at all with their tenants, either by luck or careful vetting, but you may need strong nerves to watch a new television series entitled ?Tenants From Hell?, featuring real-...
329: Bias - So What Else Is New?
Have you ever notice how biased the media is? Let?s look at the press for the moment. The New York Times is thought to have a liberal bias. How do you go about checking it out to see if it?s true? What you have to do is take a look at what?s being published that?s negatively based, and when is it being published.
Let?s say Bill Clinton was in office, and something particularly bad happened, but the Times wanted to portray it in the best possible light. No, let?s go one ste...
330: Lucky Dip For Loan Applicants
Things are not looking too rosy on the loans front. It appears that there are huge problems with debt in the UK. Banks are increasingly nervous about the state of things and feel that lending is risky at present as a result of this. The result is an increasing number of rejections of loan applications.
Most of the major banks have taken the decision to introduce a new process, called ?personal pricing?, which involves the matching of the rate offered to the result of your ...
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