If you prepay your tax six months ahead of time, you are losing money.
It makes little financial sense to prepay, if there is a chance you may face foreclosure.
Consumers of real estate--like homeowners and retailers--prepay years of rent, in effect, by buying rather than leasing.
An idea for accessing excess cash of foreign subsidiaries without increasing total tax costs is to prepay royalties.
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Don't prepay a mortgage if you have any credit card debt outstanding or are in the habit of leasing cars.
The government will also study using foreign exchange reserves to prepay debt.
Companies seeking to tap excess foreign cash for U.S. needs without incurring additional tax costs should consider having foreign subsidiaries prepay taxable royalties.
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Don't prepay your mortgage until you have set aside a year's living expenses in a pot that you can get into without any penalty.
If you don't have all the cash up front, you can prepay for a semester or even a few units of classes each year, at the then-going rate.
If they expect that Congress will cut back on itemized deductions and other tax preferences, they might want to give more to charity or prepay state and local taxes.
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Managers of acquired companies were instructed to prepay bills and delay recognizing revenue until after the purchase closed to make it look like earnings had magically increased under Tyco's ownership.
To save interest charges, the government wants to prepay the note, but Citibank, which wants to keep the asset on its books, says this goes against the spirit, if not the letter, of their agreement.
So there's sure to be much interest in September when more than 200 private colleges begin offering the Independent 529 Plan--a complicated new scheme that lets you prepay a child's private college tuition at a discount to today's rates.
Until now, the mobile hotspot market has given users essentially two basic payment plans, both of which are borrowed from the phone market: You can prepay for some fixed amount of data and re-up when you run out, or you can plop down a monthly fee for a capped per-month allocation of bits.
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Keep in mind that municipal securities are subject to a number of risks including, but not limited to: Interest Rate Risk, the risk that the market value of fixed-income securities may fluctuate when interest rates change, and Prepayment Risk, the risk that the issuers of individual securities may prepay them at a time when interest rates have declined.
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