Thursday, May 12, 2005

How to Avoid Stamp Duty
Author:Russell Eaton
When you buy property the stamp duty bill could come to thousands of pounds.



However, it's a little known fact that, by following certain perfectly legal strategies, you could significantly reduce or eliminate your stamp duty bill when you buy a property.



Some of these techniques are widely used by big building companies who offer incentives like 'cashbacks' and 'stamp duty paid' deals to homebuyers.



In this fascinating and brilliantly written new guide, property expert Russell Eaton will show you how to get these same incentives in ANY property deal.



The guide even shows you how to buy property if you don't want to pay for legal fees or a mortgage deposit!



Because stamp duty directly or indirectly affects all property buyers and sellers this guide is essential reading for:



* Anyone buying a home

* All buy-to-let property investors

* Anyone involved in developing property on a full-time or part-time basis

* Anyone selling a home or buy-to-let property

* Anyone buying or selling commercial property



The guide contains numerous clear examples and step-by-step procedures that could save you thousands in stamp duty. Subjects covered include:



* How to pay little or no stamp duty on your next purchase and make big savings. Some of the examples show savings of £6,000 to £9,270.

* How to get a cash incentive from the seller amounting to thousands of pounds (this money can pay your legal fees and other house buying costs).

* Several specific strategies that together give you the means to buy property even if you don't have enough money for the mortgage deposit.

* How to apply trade secrets (used by large house-building companies) to your particular home purchase - get deals with cash incentives, free stamp duty, and other perks. Works with just about any seller.

* How to exploit properties in certain price brackets to get big price reductions.

* How to avoid stamp duty tax traps when you buy more than one property from the same source.

* How not to lose a property, even when you cannot pay the asking price.

* How to sell a property 'free of stamp duty' (without financial loss) as a way of generating more enquiries and a quicker sale.

* Everything you need to know about stamp duty exempt areas.

* How to pay stamp duty at a lower rate and possibly save thousands of pounds by making use of "chattels" in a unique way.

* How to 'help' a buyer finance the deposit required for a mortgage as a way

of selling your house successfully.

* How to combine several strategies (as explained in the book) into a powerful 'sales package' that will make your property stand out from the crowd and achieve a sale.

How to Avoid Property Tax
Author:Carl Bayley;
This unique and comprehensive guide is packed full of tax saving advice that cannot be found in any other publication. Now in its 7th edition, How to Avoid Property Tax is widely regarded as the tax bible for property investors and will help you pay much less income tax and capital gains tax.



The 2005 edition of this bestselling guide has just been published and contains a huge number of new tax-saving ideas. It is essential reading for:



* Buy-to-let investors and landlords.

* Anyone renovating or developing property.

* Anyone looking for plain-English tax advice.

* Property investors wanting to pay much less capital gains tax.

* Anyone wanting to claim lots of income tax relief and deductions.

* Experienced and novice investors.

* Accountants, solicitors and IFAs.

* Anyone wanting tried and tested ways of legally paying less tax.



How to Avoid Property Tax is thoroughly up to date, written in plain-English and contains dozens of examples and tax planning tips.



The guide explains:



* How couples can save an extra £8,000 in income tax every year.

* How to claim motoring, home office, travel, research and hundreds of other expenses.

* Ways to avoid capital gains tax even if a property is not your main residence.

* How to enjoy 13 years of tax-free capital growth on a buy-to-let property.

* How you CAN escape capital gains tax by selling one property and buying another.

* How to make the most of your Principle Private Residence Exemption.

* How anyone renovating or developing property can save thousands in tax.

* How your children can help you slash your tax bill.

* Safe ways to emigrate and escape capital gains tax.

* The tax benefits and drawbacks of partnerships.

* The enormous tax benefits enjoyed by commercial property investors.

* How re-mortgaging property can save you thousands in tax.

* How to receive an extra £4,250 pa in tax-free rental income.

* Stamp Duty planning.

* Inheritance tax planning.

* VAT and National Insurance planning.

* How to save hundreds or even thousands of pounds in professional adviser fees.

262 - Refine Your Bidding with the Granovetters
Author:Pamela Granovetter;Matthew Granovetter
*Online course - a username and password will be emailed to you*





Learn to bid better just by using common sense! Topics include:

1. The purpose of bidding.

2. Card evaluation - when to invite games and slams, and when to accept or reject partner's game or slam invitations.

3. Suit contracts vs. notrump contracts - how to play in the right strain.

4. Reaching the right game ... from the right side!

5. The human element.

6. Competitive bidding agreements.

7. The new suit bid: is it cue bid? a probe for notrump? or natural?

8. Defensive bidding.

Cashflow ® 101
Author:Robert Kiyosaki;
The world famous money management game together with cassettes and a video from Robert Kiyosaki - it's like a seminar in a box.



The game helps you discover:

· How to raise your financial IQ quickly and easily

· What the rich teach their kids about money

· How anyone can become rich and financially free even on a small salary

101 - Learn Bridge With Larry King
Author:Larry King
*Online course - an username and password will be emailed to you*





This course begins with the assumption that you know nothing whatsoever about the game. Taught by tennis promoter Larry King, the course is very friendly and includes his ex-wife, Billie Jean King, and Martina Navratilova, as fellow students.



You'll learn how to play the game, some of the basic strategies, and how to keep score. This is an excellent refresher course as well if you once played and need a good review. Includes a complete Glossary of bridge terms.

Friday, May 06, 2005

Twilight in the Desert
Author:Matthew R. Simmons;


Getting the Best of it!
Author:David Sklansky
Getting the Best of It contains six sections discussing probability, poker, blackjack, other casino games, sports betting, and general gambling concepts. This book contains some of the most sophisticated gambling ideas that have ever been put into print. Included is perhaps the best discussion of the basic mathematics of gambling, yet it is written so that even the most non-mathematical of readers can understand it. Many of the ideas discussed are those that the author himself has successfully used during his career.



Topics include expectation, combinations, Baye's Theorem, the eight mistakes in poker, checking in the dark, playing tight, The Key Card Concept, casinos and their mistakes, crapless craps, betting sports, hedging and middling, knowing what's important, the Law of Averages and other fallacies, and much more.

Operations Research - Applications and Algorithms
Author:Wayne L. Winston
The market-leading textbook for the course, Winston's OPERATIONS RESEARCH owes much of its success to its practical orientation and consistent emphasis on model formulation and model building. It moves beyond a mere study of algorithms without sacrificing the rigor that faculty desire.



As in every edition, Winston reinforces the book's successful features and coverage with the most recent developments in the field. The Student Suite CD-ROM, which now accompanies every new copy of the text, contains the latest versions of commercial software for optimization, simulation, and decision analysis.

Operations Research
Author:Hamdy Taha
For junior/senior undergraduate and first-year graduate courses in Operations Research in departments of Industrial Engineering, Business Administration, Statistics, Computer Science, and Mathematics.



Designed to meet the needs of beginning through advanced students, this text provides balanced coverage of the theory, applications, and computations of operations research techniques - with a focus on deterministic models, probabilistic models, and nonlinear models.



Exceptionally up-to-date, it features intensive use of modern computational tools, including the all-new and extremely-powerful Windows-based TORA®, Excel® spreadsheets, Excel Solver®, LINGO® and AMPL®.



These tools are integrated throughout the text in a manner that facilitates introducing and testing concepts that otherwise could not be presented effectively. Many concepts can be demonstrated instantly, simply by changing the data of the problem.

Schaum's Outline of Operations Research
Author:Govindasami Naadimuthu; Richard Bronson
Tackling the broad range of allocation problems that actually confront engineers, programmers and analysts in today's business and industrial worlds, this book takes readers step-by-step through all the mathematical programming techniques - including the trailblazing Karmarkar algorithm - needed to excel in any operations research course. It cuts down study time while it builds essential skills.

Thursday, May 05, 2005


Operations Research - Applications and Algorithms
Author:Wayne L. Winston

The market-leading textbook for the course, Winston's OPERATIONS RESEARCH owes much of its success to its practical orientation and consistent emphasis on model formulation and model building. It moves beyond a mere study of algorithms without sacrificing the rigor that faculty desire.

As in every edition, Winston reinforces the book's successful features and coverage with the most recent developments in the field. The Student Suite CD-ROM, which now accompanies every new copy of the text, contains the latest versions of commercial software for optimization, simulation, and decision analysis.
Operations Research
Author:Hamdy Taha
For junior/senior undergraduate and first-year graduate courses in Operations Research in departments of Industrial Engineering, Business Administration, Statistics, Computer Science, and Mathematics.

Designed to meet the needs of beginning through advanced students, this text provides balanced coverage of the theory, applications, and computations of operations research techniques - with a focus on deterministic models, probabilistic models, and nonlinear models.

Exceptionally up-to-date, it features intensive use of modern computational tools, including the all-new and extremely-powerful Windows-based TORA®, Excel® spreadsheets, Excel Solver®, LINGO® and AMPL®.

These tools are integrated throughout the text in a manner that facilitates introducing and testing concepts that otherwise could not be presented effectively. Many concepts can be demonstrated instantly, simply by changing the data of the problem.
Schaum's Outline of Operations Research
Author:Govindasami Naadimuthu; Richard Bronson

Tackling the broad range of allocation problems that actually confront engineers, programmers and analysts in today's business and industrial worlds, this book takes readers step-by-step through all the mathematical programming techniques - including the trailblazing Karmarkar algorithm - needed to excel in any operations research course. It cuts down study time while it builds essential skills.