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Full Year Statutory Accounts
The Age, Australia This farmout required Crusader to pay the cost of the first horizontal well to be drilled in the Company’s acreage position in order to earn a share of the revenue. The acreage involved was further limited as the interest covered excluded the existing … |
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The best bang for your bucks
Sydney Morning Herald, Australia With official interest rates at such low levels and possibly going lower, putting money in the bank isn’t going to earn the best of returns. However, since December 2008 it does come with a Government guarantee, which in the current climate cannot be … |
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Report: Refund loans costly to many Indians
SW Iowa News, IA But the commercial, shortterm refund anticipation loans often come with fees and have effective annual interest rates of 50 percent to 500 percent. Combining the costs of tax preparation and refund loans, typical EITC recipients nationwide who get … |
Six U.S. counties with American Indian reservations — including Thurston County in Nebraska — ranked highest in the nation for the percentage of taxpayers who claimed a federal income tax credit for low-income workers but who lost part of the benefit to costly refund anticipation loans, a children’s advocacy group said.
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Investors in 10-year Treasuries would earn no more than the 2.75 percent coupon rate if yields hold steady through year-end, Bloomberg data show, compared with returns of 14 percent last year, including prices gains and reinvested income, according to … |