Are you in a dilemma whether to go for auto loan refinance or not? Well, if you are paying higher interest rate on your car purchase then you definitely need considering refinancing of your auto loan as one of your option.

Auto loan refinancing is one of the best ways to save your money. You could refinance your car loan and lower your payments to a great extent. While refinancing auto loan, the borrower chooses a different lender offering lower interest rate to refinance the auto loan and the borrower eventually pays off the current auto loan. Since the interest rate is lower the monthly payments are lowered and that helps you save a lot amount of money in your payments. This in turn helps you gain financial stability.

Say for example you bought a new car one year ago and the dealer told you that your auto loan would be 12 percent on a five year loan for a $ 25,000 car. You end up paying $ 556.11 as your monthly payments.

However once you opt for auto loan refinancing you can lower your payments to about $ 400 per month. That’s a saving of more than $ 7200 over the life of the loan. That’s a substantial amount of saving. Isn’t it?

“To gain maximum benefit from auto loan refinancing you should refinance your auto loan early. You can save much more amount of money by refinancing your auto loan in the initial stages of the loan period than in the later stages. But it is very important to choose a lender who refinances your auto loan with lower interest rate on the loan amount”, says Anthony Tribunella, Expert and Director of Operations at Auto Relief Group.

For the past fifteen years, the Modification Specialists of the Auto Relief Group have been helping consumers in all aspects of the car and financing business, and due to the current recession, have decided to dedicate themselves to assisting consumers renegotiate their car loan or lease, avoid repossession and maintain ownership of their vehicle by working directly with lenders to restructure loans, extend terms or reduce payments.

About Auto Relief Group

Auto Relief Group offers Car Loan Modification service, we assist car owners in renegotiating their car loan or lease, avoid repossession and maintain ownership of their vehicle by working directly with lenders to restructure loans, extend terms or reduce payments.

We provide our clients with customized reports, expert advice and negotiation assistance when restructuring their car loans.

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Every employer in the UK must register as an employer with the tax authority. Register to administer a PAYE scheme is obligatory if the employee has other paid employment or has earnings at or above the PAYE threshold and liable for deductions of income tax, or has earnings at or above the national insurance lower earnings level. Registration can take place up to four weeks before the first qualifying employee is engaged.

The paye system is a scheme whereby employees are deducted income tax and national insurance on a weekly or monthly basis according to the frequency of wage and salary payments by the employer who then pays the income tax and national insurance contributions over to the inland revenue in the UK each month.

The employer is also responsible for keeping a record of the employers national insurance contributions which together with the employee deductions are paid over to the tax authority on or before the 19th of the month following the pay period. Small business that has a quarterly liability to income tax and national insurance less than 1,500 pounds per quarter can arrange to pay the PAYE every three months rather than every month.

PAYE administration involves the calculation of income tax using a tax code system. Each employee is allocated a tax code which consists of a number equal to approximately one tenth of the personal tax allowance as adjusted by the employee personal tax adjustments. Special conditions and circumstances for each employee is usually representing in the tax code with a letter known as a suffix to the prefix tax code number.

The financial tax year in the UK is from 6 April one year to 5 April the following year with each tax year divided into 53 specific week numbers that accounts for days over at the end of the year and also into 12 monthly periods. Income tax deducted is calculated by the employer operating the PAYE scheme on a cumulative basis during the tax year by using either manual tax tables or a payroll software package. The tax table is arranged to determine the tax free allowance each pay week or month during the year according to the employee tax code.

To calculate the income tax the employer determines the cumulative tax free allowance in a specific week or month and deducts this allowance from the cumulative gross pay that employee is due at that tax week including current wages or salary and all previous income earned during the current tax year including any earnings from other employers. Having established the taxable pay that amount is then applied to the percentage of income tax to be paid under the current tax rules for that financial year.

The employer is responsible for deducting the correct amount of income tax, issuing the employee a payslip to advise the income tax deducted and also for paying the income tax deducted to the tax authority. The PAYE calculations and production of payslips is an essential function of payroll software that many employers adopt to ensure accuracy and compliance with the regulatory bodies tax rules.

The second major area of PAYE administration is for employees to deduct national insurance contributions from employees. National insurance contributions are calculated not on a cumulative basis as income tax but are calculated according to the gross income earned in a specific pay period based upon the gross pay during that weekly or monthly pay period.

The amount of national insurance deducted is determined by looking up the employee gross pay on a national insurance deductions table. A different national insurance table is applied according to the personal circumstances of the employee. In addition to the employee national insurance contribution each employer also has to pay an employer national insurance contribution.

PAYE administration is a series of payroll and deductions documentation related to the payment of wages and salaries to employees. The majority of businesses use payroll software to automate the calculations and produce the information required for the PAYE returns.

The starting point of the PAYE system is the P45 which all employees receive when they leave an employment and is a certificate of the cumulative gross pay and income tax deducted up to the date of the P45. Details from the P45 also include the employee tax code that must be entered into the employee PAYE records to enable the new employer to calculate the income tax due to date.

If an employee does not hand the new employer a P45 then they are taxed on a week to week basis until the tax code and cumulative income tax position are known. Confirmation of an employee tax position is obtained by the new employer by submitting a P46 form to the Inland Revenue when an employee does not have a P45.

Having engaged an employee and deducted income tax and national insurance contributions the employee must receive a payslip from the employer showing the gross pay, deductions and net pay. In additional the employer also needs to maintain records of payments to the employee and deductions made. Payroll software can produce these records and the Inland Revenue also provide small employers with a P11 deductions working paper for this purpose.

At the end of the financial tax year for payroll three main PAYE documents are required to be completed by each employer. Each employee has to be given a P60 certificate of earnings and deductions during the financial year. The P60 is an important document and often required for many diverse purposes unconnected with the PAYE system such as future mortgage applications and other purposes as proof of income.

The employer also has to complete a P14 for each employee which is the form on which the employee deductions and statutory payments are recorded. The P14 is sent to the Inland Revenue.

In addition every employer also has to complete a P35 which is the Annual Employers Return which lists the name of every employee, the income tax deducted and national insurance liability including employee and employer contributions. The P35 also includes statutory payments made to employees and the amount of the employer has already paid to the Inland Revenue. In the UK employers can receive a tax free bonus for filing the P35 details online.

Basic rate tax for 2008 is 20 percent. For earnings above the higher income threshold which is £34.800 the basic rate tax increases to 40 per cent.

The personal allowance of people over 65 and up to 74 is £9,030 which is reduced if income exceeds £21,800 and people over 75 receive a personal allowance of £9,180 also reduced when income exceeds the £21,800 income threshold. The rate of tax allowance reduction is £1 for every £2 above the income threshold until the basic personal allowance is reached.

The number in the UK tax code is known as the prefix while the letter following that number is known as the suffix. Each suffix letter in the tax codes explained as a different meaning.

Letter L means eligible for the basic personal allowance and is also used for the emergency tax codes. Letter P is for people aged 65 to 74 and letter V for people aged 75 and over, while letter Y is also for people over 75 but who are eligible for the full personal allowance. A tax code with a suffix letter T indicates there may be issues that HMRC still need to review regarding the tax code and letter K indicates that the value of taxable benefits exceeds the personal allowance.

Where untaxed incomes, such as benefits, are received by the employee exceed the personal allowance a K code is issued by HMRC. The number following the letter K indicates the amount of benefits multiplied by 10 that are to be taxed in addition to the gross earnings received. This is achieved by adding the K code number multiplied by 10 to the gross earnings of the employee for income tax purposes.

Some Inland Revenue tax coding consists of just letters allowing the tax codes explained simply. The BR tax code means basic rate where the employee entire earnings are taxed at the basic tax rate. The BR tax code is often used when an employee has a second job and should also be applied by an employer who has not received a P45 or P46 for a new employee. The NT tax codes explained is that no tax is deducted from the employee so the basic rate tax does not apply..

HMRC are responsible for issuing tax codes and determine the Inland Revenue tax code by giving everyone the personal allowance, deducting any earnings where tax remains unpaid from the previous year and dividing the result by 10. Variations to this calculation are when other factors affect the tax code.

An emergency tax code is issued to calculate tax when the new tax code is not immediately available. That can occur when the employee does not have a P45 or completes a P46. The emergency tax code 543L is replaced with the new tax code 603L from 7 September 2008 which is the basic tax allowance but is also applied on a week one or month one basis. A week one or month one basis means the employer will calculate tax to be deducted for each pay period and not on a cumulative basis which in effect prevents tax refunds until a confirmed tax code is received to replace the emergency tax code..

It is important for employers to use the correct UK tax code which is stated on the P45 an employee presents to the new employer when starting employment to deduct the correct rate of tax. If the new employee does not have a P45 for the current financial year then the employer should request the employee complete a P46. The P46 is sent to HMRC who then review the tax coding and issue an appropriate tax code for the employer to use.

The personal allowance usually changes each new tax year and the old Inland Revenue tax codes from the previous year can be used for the first few weeks of the year and replaced with the new tax code in week 7. The rate of tax deducted if the previous year personal tax allowance has been increased is common and the employee receives a tax refund when the new tax code is applied.

When the new tax code is known from the start of the new tax year the tax coding can be applied from week one and as the correct tax has been deducted no refund is due.

Many aircraft owners and potential owners have contacted us for an explanation on California’s “first functional use” requirement.   We have learned that there is a lot of mis-information and confusion on this issue.  Our attempt is to clarify some of the confusion that exists and eliminate the mis-information with the “first functional use” requirement for the California use tax exemption process.

“First functional use” is a critical component of the California use tax exemption process.  California Sales and Use Tax Regulation 1620 defines first functional use as “use for which the property was designed.”  An aircraft is defined in Law section 6274 as “any contrivance designed for powered navigation in the air except a rocket or missile.”  Logically, one would conclude that first functional use of an aircraft is flight because aircraft are designed to fly; right?  Not necessarily.  In my experience with the sales and use tax law, one can not rely upon logic. 

The California State Board of Equalization (BOE) has effectively confused the term “for which the property was designed” with “how big it is,” or “how is it configured.”  I’ll explain; in May of 2002 a staff member of the BOE’s tax counsel (writer) drafted a memorandum to another staff member explaining to them the writer’s interpretation of first functional use.  Somehow, the writer deduced a formula, or justification, to distinguish between aircraft designed for personal purposes and aircraft designed for commercial purposes.  Simply put, the writer concluded in the memorandum that an aircraft with 6 or fewer seats was an aircraft designed for personal purposes, and an aircraft with 7 or more seats was designed for commercial purposes. 

To confuse the issue even further, the writer decided that all jet aircraft were designed for commercial purposes, and “personal” aircraft could be “configured” for commercial purposes.  Additionally, the writer added that it was possible for someone to justify a large jet as a personal use aircraft.

Now that the writer made a distinction between personal and commercial aircraft, the writer defined the “first functional use” for each.  Aircraft that are designed for personal purposes were first functionally used when flown, and aircraft designed for commercial purposes were first functionally used when flown with a passenger or cargo onboard.

We have researched and reviewed several thousand legal opinions and rulings from the BOE on this issue.  The BOE had interpreted first functional use as flight, up until this memorandum was drafted and distributed throughout the agency.  After the distribution its effect was immediate, and in some cases a retroactive application of the new formula.  During our research, we developed the industries most successful approach to complete the first functional use requirements pursuant to the current standards, and have projected other items that may be required in the future. 

As a standard practice, Aero-tax advises that the purchaser bring someone, to the out of state delivery location, to act as a true passenger (not a pilot, co-pilot, flight crew, CFI, etc.) onboard a flight (or two) outside of California before proceeding with their specific exemption.  In addition, this flight must begin in one state, country, territory, etc. (not California), and end in a separate state, country, territory, etc. (not California).  For example, this flight may depart from the out of state delivery location (Oregon), to another state (not within California or Oregon).  Depending on the “design/size” of the aircraft and for those who are claiming the commercial interstate or foreign commerce exemption, they must conduct business at the location they travel to.  In addition, documentation must be obtained to support the business purpose (i.e., meeting notes, invoices, proposals, etc.) of the flight.

After the first functional use flight has been made, and prior to departing that location, fuel must be purchased, ideally using a credit card.  This will generate a fuel receipt that will contain documentary evidence that the aircraft was at this location on a specific date.  Additionally, a statement will be needed from the passenger onboard the aircraft during the “first functional use” flight.  Depending upon the type of exemption you are claiming the aircraft may or may not be allowed into California.   

If the foregoing process and documentation are properly completed and collected, the “first functional use” requirement should be adequately fulfilled.  The smallest variation could mean disaster for the tax exemption.

The “first functional use” is only one of the small, yet critical, parts of the California use tax exemption process.  There are many aspects which must be completed successfully and documented in order to secure the exemption.  ACE will guide the purchaser through the process and ensure the success by monitoring each aspect of the exemption requirements.

Unless otherwise expressly indicated, any advice contained herein was not written and is not intended to be used, and cannot be used, for the purpose of avoiding any sales or use tax, interest or penalty that may be imposed.  To be certain the exemption requirements are accurate for your specific situation, call one of our tax experts to discuss.

Other articles will be coming out periodically to explain other aspects of the California sales and use tax laws, regulations, legal decisions, exemptions, or other related matters.  If you have a specific sales and use tax topic that you would like discussed or explained please send us an email to joe@aero-tax.com.