The past few days have been a nightmare for Indian PayPal account holders. PayPal Notification: Reversed Transaction and bank transfer reversals even after a completed status update have not been cleared. It’s a financial glitch because RBI is upset about taxes they can’t collect due to loopholes.

PayPal has no arrangements to make transactions compulsorily taxable, and most account holders have been happily receiving personal payments as they gifts in dollars are the done thing. Once these payments are transferred to an Indian bank account people simply pretend it’s money that came along and don’t show it as an income, in which case all this money will be taxable.

Would Indians no longer be allowed to use PayPal? The risks are high considering there’s too much money involved. Will RBI step in? Well, why not, anyone would be happy with more taxes collected in times of recession.

PayPal Non-US account declaration

A few months ago, a thoughtful customer sent me this:

You have received this mail because you have used this email account to receive PayPal funds from XXXX Media Inc. (XXXX@XXXX.com) for purchasing services including content creation, WordPress template submission, etc.

XXXX Media Inc. is US-registered thus all payment issued shall be in compliance with US tax laws. A declaration statement is needed from you to declare the nature of your PayPal account.

Since your PayPal is a Non-US account, it will take only 2 minutes from you to compose a mail from this email address to partnership@serritekmediainc.com

The mail should look like this:
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Subject:
Declaration Statement
Content:
XXXX Media Inc.,

I hereby declare that I do not have any income effectively connected to the USA.

My name
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For your convenience, you can simply copy the above content when composing this mail.

By doing this, IRS will see your account with no effective connection to the USA and thus no tax will be applied to all the payment we have sent. If the declaration fails to arrive before the end of 2009, IRS might advise PayPal to lock down your PayPal and ours for inspection of possible money laundering.
This too could play a part in PayPal transaction reversals and non receipt of transfers made to your bank accounts.

In this short write up, I can only talk about PayPal transactions that are being reversed in India. Everybody needs to be less shocked and more responsible. This had to happen because too many people were receiving payments for services ( online jobs) and goods as gifts. It’s called cheating the Indian government because gifts can’t be taxed. Of course, the loopholes didn’t get exploited right at the start when most Indians began using PayPal towards the end of 2007.

Ever since, people got greedy and started taking every payment as a gift so now RBI isn’t happy at having lost on taxable dollars. As of now, PayPal has removed personal payment options, etc., so you can’t send or receive gifts, and hopefully your PayPal payments will not be reversed now. However, there is no clear indication regarding what is going to happen next.

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In Allegheny County, the previous countywide reassessment is the base year. The advantage of the base year method is that it permits similar homes to have Parallel home assessments. Currently, all market values represent the estimated value of the property, based on the base market value as on January 1, 2002. The Allegheny County Home Assessment office also provides services like Online Quick Help and Real Estate Web Site. It enables property owners to view all the property and tax records for any property in the country. Home assessment service is available on weekends too.

Home Assessment Value

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Light at the end of the tunnel is clearly visible but the journey is far from getting over. This is the scenario with real estate around the world. The main reason for this recovery is that the mortgage system has got stricter and many of the procedures and schemes that were responsible for plunging most people into the recession water have been scrapped forever. Generally 2nd mortgage companies pay a loan of around 7-8% on the total valuation of the property without any equity back up. The offer sounds tempting, but a number of factors like the liability, rates, repayment dates everything needs to be taken into consideration before actually taking this risky step.

As of now with the market fluctuating, most finance gurus recommend laying off for a while and letting the market and the dollar recover. It doesn’t make sense trading a cashmere shawl for a leather jacket, if you know what I mean. Analyzing the world economic scenario is indeed a very though job. Speculations are flying far and wide as to whether the recession has ended or is the worst yet to come. Mixed trends and confusing survey results have somehow contributed to the agony of people.

Mortgage is not an option most people would like to take as it entitles you to sell all you have and move into a less expensive dwelling until you can really pay back your credit. The summers of 2008 saw project delinquencies peaking by an average of 3.6% since the last three years. The sale of new houses has also taken a sharp dip. It is estimated that there are about 4.5 million homes in the market and it would take an average of 9.6 months to sell them off.

Home owners are perhaps the first section of people who gets affected with inflation or rising interest rates. According to CML the current statistics show that the rate of mortgages in January 2009 fell by about 28% from last December and by 52% by January 2008. It’s a tough battle for both companies, and house owners, as both struggle to stay afloat.

There is a shift in the borrowing trends in the auto loan industry .Customer these days are opting for a loan for a longer period of time than the usual 4/5 years range. This helps them to evenly balance out their loan EMI over a longer period of term, so that their savings and pay outs can be evenly managed.