- Chase Private Client and Sapphire Preferred 65K by Frequent Miler. Interesting way to get around the 5/24 rules, but I assume most people won’t be eligible for CPC.
- Breaking Down The Costs of Living In Luxury Hotels For All 2015 by Travel is Free. The inner nerd in me absolutely loves these posts. I’d love to do a similar break down, unfortunately having a lot of paid work stays (that qualify for promotions) makes it much more difficult.
- Is Safeway Discontinuing Visa Gift Card Sales? by Points Chaser. Not good news, I love grocery store spend!
- ANA Credit Card, Up To 10k Bonus. I was going to do a post on this, but it requires a paid flight.
- PSA: Bank of America Issues 1099-INT Forms for Bank Bonuses That Earn Miles by Points Centric. Value of 1¢ per mile is very fair and reasonable, not such a big deal I don’t think. I actually prefer it when I get a 1099-INT for a non cash bank bonus (with a fair valuation), otherwise it’s difficult to value it fairly for tax purposes.
- Barclays shuts down my wife’s account and my 3 accounts by Miles Per Day. Slow & steady wins the race, that’s why I like to have a few different cards that earn 2% cash back, that way I can spread the load. That being said, I’ve been hitting my Arrival+ hard recently, so wouldn’t be surprised with a shut down.
- My Discover Apple Pay 10% Came Through in a Big Way (Well Sort Of) & More Date Points by Miles to Memories. Glad to see that these are slowly going through.
You report non-cash bank bonuses on your taxes? I haven’t ever done that. For some reason, I didn’t think miles and points were subject to tax. I know your not a tax accountant but can you elaborate?
From what I understand, bank account bonuses are not rebates (like credit cards) and are treated as interest even if they aren’t cash. Thus you have to pay taxes on them.
I see. Thanks! I thought he got a 1099 for the BOA Alaskan card. I know see it was for opening a bank account.
Frequent miler is raking it in.
This is the first time I’ve seen Barclay close down for MS. DoC do you have any other data points?
I’ve heard of others for heavy hitting MS. And they shut down the whole family whenever they do it.
Any links?
Not Points with a Crew! It is PointsCentric
Amazingly, this happened to me too some time ago!
Always get those two confused, fixed it.