Bankruptcy Blogs

Can I Pay my Taxes with a Credit Card, then File Bankruptcy to Discharge the Debt?

03/29/12

no discharge of tax debt paid with credit cardWith April 15 just around the corner, many of us will be scrambling to come up w

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Can I Pay my Taxes with a Credit Card, then File Bankruptcy to Discharge the Debt?

03/29/12

no discharge of tax debt paid with credit cardWith April 15 just around the corner, many of us will be scrambling to come up w

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Can I Pay my Taxes with a Credit Card, then File Bankruptcy to Discharge the Debt?

03/29/12

no discharge of tax debt paid with credit cardWith April 15 just around the corner, many of us will be scrambling to come up w

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Can I Pay my Taxes with a Credit Card, then File Bankruptcy to Discharge the Debt?

03/29/12

no discharge of tax debt paid with credit cardWith April 15 just around the corner, many of us will be scrambling to come up w

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Where's Banks' Incentive to Cut Card Fraud?

03/29/12

For more than a decade, banks have encouraged all retailers to have their customers sign for their debit card purchases instead of entering a PIN. The signature system is far more prone to fraud.

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The Seven Bad Habits of Poorly Governed Companies

03/29/12

Bankers should take these red flags into account when assessing corporate credit and vendor risk. No. 1 on the list: when a company's chairman and CEO are the same individual.

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Tax Rebates Lead to Bankruptcy Filings

03/29/12

Jialin Wing has a blog post up summarizing her and her co-authors very interesting NBER paper estimating that at least 30,000 to 60,000 liquidity constrained households this will be priced out of bankruptcy because of the increased costs that came with the 2005 changes to the bankruptcy law.

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When You’re Too Broke to File Bankruptcy…

03/29/12

How Can I Pay For Bankruptcy? At first blush, the title of this post “When You’re Too Broke to File Bankruptcy” may seem counter intuitive to some. After all, isn’t it people who are by definition “broke” and struggling with debt who turn to bankruptcy to hit the reset button? While it is true that [...]

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SEC Kicks Stock Trader Out of Chapter 13 Bankruptcy

03/29/12

Too Much Debt Forces Trader Out of Chapter 13 It’s never a good thing when you owe money to the federal government. While that doesn’t come as a big surprise to most of us, the story of a Michigan stock broker reminds us yet again that Uncle Sam can and will play hard ball. Debtor [...]

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Can Filing Bankruptcy Save My Home?

03/29/12

Yes, Bankruptcy Might be Able to Save Your Home Yes, under certain circumstances, filing for bankruptcy can save your home from foreclosure, but read on, there are certain conditions that must be met before you qualify for relief. We’ll do our best to give you a guide to the process here in this post. Whether you [...]

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