Welcome to Point Me to First Class, the only show for employed professionals, entrepreneurs,

and business owners who are looking to optimize their higher than average expenses to travel the world.

I'm your host, Stephen Kimballimble and I believe that your expenses are your

greatest untapped asset if you know how to leverage them. Ready to dive into the world

of credit card points and miles so you can travel more, travel better, and travel often.

Let's get started.

Hey everybody, I am so excited about today's

podcast episode because this is a very special time of the year at least if you're based in the US.

Now if you're listening to this episode in real time it is Monday, 10th which means that if you're based in the

US or if you're a US citizen lucky enough to be living abroad it is almost tax day

the annual day on which your income tax returns are due to be

submitted to the US government and at which time you may or may not have the

lovely experience of having to make a tax payment to the IRS. Now, depending on your

circumstances, you may have a few additional tax days throughout the year if you

pay quarterly estimated taxes like my family does. But almost all of us will be filing taxes and

possibly having a tax payment due in a few short days on April 18th. And one

thing that has greatly lessened the sting of paying taxes and sometimes a lot of taxes for me

has been the opportunity to earn points, potentially a lot of points by making tax payments using a points earning credit card.

And the opportunity to earn hundreds of thousands of extra points a year by paying our taxes

with points earning credit cards first became apparent to me around 10 years ago

when my husband became self-employed and it seemed like we went from paying a lot of taxes once a year

to paying a lot more taxes four times a year compared to when we were

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