What Should You Do During the Foreclosure Process? What Should You Do During the Foreclosure Process Mortgage Payments Sending You Reeling? Here’s What to Do [Note: This article is taken from the Federal Trade Commission Site.] The possibility of losing your home because you can’t make the mortgage payments can be terrifying. Perhaps you’re having trouble … Read more
Islamic financial arrangements used in Islamic banking (MUSHARIKA, MURABIHA, QARDE AL’HASANA, IJAREH, MUDARABA) Author: EHSAN ZARROKH ZARROKH2007@YAHOO.COM 2007-04-06 ABSTRACT Islamic finance is an old concept but a very young discipline in the academic sense. It lacks the required extent and level of theories and models needed for expansion and … Read more
The Obama Administration has proposed a 2011 federal budget intended to steer the economy toward recovery and create new sources of revenue to reduce our country’s deficit. If enacted, the tax proposals in the budget would affect individuals, businesses, and estates. Individual Provisions Perhaps the most wide-reaching provision in the budget proposal allows the maximum … Read more
Understanding the tax implications of replacing or selling existing life insurance coverage will help shed some light on the options available to financial advisors and policy holders looking to capitalize on the hidden value in their life insurance plans. Policy holders need to know what the tax implications are for coverage payments in advance of … Read more
1031 Exchange and Tax Advantages A 1031 Exchange or Like Kind Exchange is defined by Section 1031 of the InternalRevenue Code. This code specifies that if an asset (usually some form of real estate such asland or a building) is sold and the proceeds of the sale are then reinvested in a like kind of … Read more