Kafra Credit Points Hack
Contents.OverviewThe Kafra Shop is the iRO version of an Item Mall. To purchase items through the Kafra Shop, users must use Kafra Shop Points. These items are divided into several categories. Current categories in the Kafra Shop include Consumable Items, Headgears, Boxes, Costumes, Rental Weapons and Rental Accessories.Kafra Shop PointsKafra Shop Points (also known as KP) can be purchased directly on the.
Kafra Shop Points can also be obtained by redeeming Gravity Game Prepaid Cards purchased at retail stores like Target. By and large, the more you spend to renew/purchase points, the more points will be earned for the money. As a basic general conversion, $1 USD = 100 Kafra Shop Points.Kafra Shop Points can also be obtained without spending money.
The player may fill out surveys and receive points if the survey conditions and requirements are met. The list of available surveys may change from time to time.
New surveys may be added and some surveys may be removed if enough participants have successfully completed the survey forms. Therefore, it may be helpful to occasionally recheck the list of available surveys.Warning: It should be noted that many surveys disqualify participants before completion of the survey, thus resulting in no points awarded. Most players have found the surveys to be a waste of time.Note: 'Kafra Shop Points' are not to be confused with 'Kafra Points' earned by spending on regular Employee services, such as using Storage, Teleporting and renting. Those points can be used at the Kafra Headquarters in.In-GameKafra Shop Employees are located on the second floor of the HQ,. Items available for purchase in the Kafra Shop are all listed in order of when they were added.
Older items are at the top, while newer items are at the bottom. If you need to find out how many unused Kafra Shop Points remain, simply click on a Kafra Shop Employee vending items and the total will be displayed at the bottom of the Shop Items list window.A Cash Shop button in the client interface allows direct purchase of Kafra Shop items from anywhere in the game. Items that require an NPC to function (upgrades, Gym Pass training, clothing dye, etc.) must be taken to that NPC.Other related NPCs include:NPCDescriptionRipped Callus (Cabus). Prontera 87 91.
She sells clothing dye (see Dye section below).ItemsThe list of items can be found at the, which lists items, their prices, and user ratings. The items can also be viewed in-game by visiting the aforementioned Kafra Shop NPC.On iRO, Kafra shop items are grouped into the following categories:.Or check out the Lucky Box / Groove Pack / Overseas Care Package (etc) archive.Clothes DyeCharacters may dye their clothing using from the Kafra Shop. For more detailed information please check.Headgear DyeCharacters may dye their headgear using from the Kafra Shop. To dye your headgear, talk to Alora in 2nd Floor of Eden.
Living your dream vacation is easier than ever with credit card rewards. A litany of cards offer massive miles, hotel rooms or cash for spending a certain amount within a short period of time. And there’s the rub. How can the average person spend $3,000 and more to get bonuses of 50,000 points and up within a few months?Enter manufactured spending. Reaching a level of required spending either requires owning a business with significant purchases, over spending your budget to get the rewards (why bother, it’s cheaper to buy the darn airline tickets) or manufactured spending.
Manufactured spending takes time and requires jumping through hoops. There are also additional fees using many manufactured spending methods. And the time! Oh my god, the time to get it done. There has to be a better way.Meeting spending requirements always required some fancy footwork. But for you, my friend, those days are over. Today I will show you how to reach nearly any spending goal you need for the vacation of your dreams at virtually no cost to you.
In fact, you will probably get paid to engage my way of manufacture spending. The time requirements are nil and the whole process is easily handled from the easy chair in your living room.If you want free vacations from now on, keep reading. The travel hack/credit card hack I am about to reveal is something I have not seen anywhere else. Even if you don’t care to travel, this strategy can drop $10,000 or more a year in your lap tax free.Meet My Favorite Uncle, SamI know y’all come here expecting to read about taxes and stuff. Instead you find articles on early retirement, financial independence, tips on living the good life, and every so often a tax or investment tip.
What’s up with that? Well, no more. Today we are going to talk about taxes (only a little bit) because the IRS wants to give lots of free money and vacations, all for the asking.I will save the links until the end of this post so we can focus on the process.It works like this: You can pay your taxes with a credit card on a few sites for a fee of 1.87% to 1.98% Since many credit cards have rewards worth around 1.5% to 2% the fee paid is negligible and even slightly profitable in some instances. The value of the points used for travel can make the transaction very profitable.Bonus rewards of 50,000 or more points for spending a certain amount within a certain time—say $3,000 in 90 days—is no longer an issue. The IRS will help you accumulate nearly any amount of points needed to travel first class anywhere in world.You and your significant other can apply for a few new cards a few times a year to supercharge your points portfolio of hotel rooms, airline rewards points, cash and other rewards.Yes, I hear your groans. You don’t owe the IRS or you already filed your taxes.
This friendly accountant will now show you how a few tax hacks that will turn virtually any tax situation into a cash cow.Pump Up the VolumeOwing money when you file your tax return limits the opportunities to capitalize on credit card rewards. You can only pay what you owe. Paying the IRS can take many forms, however. Estimated taxes are also payable via credit card. So are payroll taxes for small business owners.Small business owners can pay their 940 and 941 deposits via credit card on the sites listed at the end of this post. Business owners with employees now have a reason to rejoice every payday.For non-business owners there are plenty of additional opportunities.
There is no rule requiring you to withhold your taxes from your paycheck. You are more than welcome to pay your federal withholding via an estimated tax payment. By changing your W-4 at work increasing your exemptions—thereby lowering your withholding—you will need to make an estimated tax payment to avoid a large year-end balance due. This will provide plenty of spend to meet the credit card bonus requirements.The IRS says you can claim exempt on your federal withholding if you expect to owe no taxes on your next return. Well, you’re not going to have a balance due! Every month you will make your estimated payment online to keep the IRS happy and satisfy the spending requirements of your new credit card.You can pay your state taxes the same way, but paying online by credit card is limited to a few states or the fees are higher. You can check the links at the end of this post to review if your state taxes can also be paid by credit card.The Ultimate HackWhat I outlined above still limits your spending to your actual tax.
If you have a low tax the above strategy still doesn’t solve the problem. No worries.From now on I want you to file your taxes late. This is all legal.I want you to give your tax professional all your tax documents like you normally do. When she finishes your return tell her to file an extension instead.
Anytime during the year you need a massive amount of extra spend to satisfy multiple new credit card bonus requirements you simply pay the IRS an estimated payment for the 4 th quarter of the previous year. Call your accountant and inform them of the additional estimated tax paid. File the return ASAP and have your refund direct deposited. You should have your refund in a week or two, well before the credit card payments are due. There is no limit to the size of this type of manufactured spending. Bit it is limited to once a year. Who ever thought you would be so excited looking forward to preparing your taxes?Bringing it TogetherThis is a simple hack merging credit cards and taxes.
Let’s bring it together so you can get started.You can pay virtually any federal tax by credit card. Business owners can turn payroll tax payments into cash or vacationsAnyone can reduce their federal withholding at work and make estimated payments instead via credit card.Finally, you get a once a year opportunity to gather massive rewards points by making a massive estimated tax payment and then filing your tax return so you have your refund before the credit card payment is due. If you use this strategy, know that if you do this after June 1 st of the year the return is due the IRS will pay you interest from June 1 st to the day the cut the check or direct deposit the funds.Here are the three sites where you can pay your taxes via credit card online or by phone:: The fee is 1.87%. It is the lowest I could find and is less than some credit cards pay in cash back.: This payment method is used by my tax software. The fee is 1.98% as of this writing.: Official Payments allows you to pay a lot of other taxes, tuition, fines, utility bills and more.
The fee is higher, too. I only recommend this site for payments that can’t be made on Pay1040.The above are not affiliate links, therefore I receive no compensation if you use their services.Your friendly accountant does get hungry now and again so I humbly submit the credit card research link below. If you use the following link and apply for and are approved for a credit card at that time I will receive compensation. My hope is you will take pity on a wayward accountant and grant him the love of a commission check by getting all your credit cards using the link below from now on. Be sure to bookmark this page for later reference.You can or (I like the second link as a starting point personally).
The link takes you to a page with a few recommended rewards cards. There is also a tool for you to research the perfect credit card for your needs. You can pick up a card or two for yourself and your significant other can do the same. In no time at all you will be traveling the world tax-free, all thanks to the IRS.Is Uncle Sam is starting to give you the warm and fuzzy? I just can’t go that far with the love.
Fiby, you still pay all your taxes on time, just with credit card to capture bonus rewards. Estimated taxes are paid monthly during the year if you reduce payroll withholding and any balance due by the due date with the extension. The lump sump for massive spend is only done after the fact when all required taxes have been paid. You just delay filing so you can make a huge estimated tax deposit for the prior year and then file for a nearly instantaneous refund.
This leaves you with no money out of pocket and a large amount of credit card points. This is really interesting. As a small business owner, I’m slowly learning these things. We have an S-Corp and I’m learning a lot from your site and knowledge so keep it up!!!One thing I don’t really know, since we have a payroll service that handles the payroll taxes, can we pay it out using those links with on a 940?
So, instead of the payroll tax being pulled from the account by the payroll service, we simply pre-pay it through there on the credit card? Then we have to keep track of the pre-payment and file that in our 1120 for the year?Again, forgive my ignorance, I’ve had an accountant do our Corporate taxes the last two years, and I’ve been digging through them now that I have two samples to see what all is involved and if I can potentially do it myself.Anyway, thanks, your stuff has been great so far!!! Hmm, interesting strategy but we’ve never done estimated tax payments. We are both employed by corporate America, but we like CC bonuses. So, now to have full understanding I’d like some clarification:1. Once we change our w/h on the W-4 at work, do we have to print and send any additional forms to the IRS to pay those estimated taxes each month? I actually thought that estimate tax payments are mostly for self employed or business owners, not employees of corp.
Must we pay federal income taxes MONTHLY or can we pay them bi-monthly or quarterly when we have new credit cards (kind of like bunching)?3. Can we switch such strategy back and worth as we wish? Meaning when we have enough CC’s, we’d amend the W-4 again to have our taxes w/h from our paychecks?4. How does this strategy change the reporting on Form 1040? I see that FIT w/h from W-2 goes on Line 64. We would add estimated tax payments on Line 65, correct?5. Any advice what records to keep or how to organize our records in case the IRS gets curious about the stuff reported on Line 65?
I’m guessing IRS doesn’t require to see copies of each payment made during the year, right?6. Not sure I understood how the massive hack happens at the end of the year. Can we make a few payments during December using a few different CC’s? Say I make $10k tax payment in December and file taxes in January and that’s how I get it back as a refund?Line 65 sounds confusing to me “2016 estimated tax payments and amount applied from 2015 return”: How does that 2015 get in the middle here? I thought it was taken care of in 2016. No wonder I’m not a tax preparer LOL.Anyway I’m asking all these questions because I’ve done our taxes by myself.
They’re simple enough plus I like to know what happens even if it gets a notch complicated.Thanks. Mimoza, anyone can make an estimated tax deposit. 1.) Using the online portals I provide there will be no additional forms to file, like the 1040-ES. 2.) You can pay more frequently, but some sites only allow two payments per month. I recommend paying at least quarterly to avoid tax penalties and to keep the amount due down to a manageable level. 3.) Absolutely! You are not stuck with my program just because you try it.
In fact, I encourage you try it. If you don’t like it or for any other reason, stop. 4.) ES payments go on the line below where W-2 withholding goes. So, yes, Line 65 of Form 1040 (on the 2016 tax return). 5.) Your credit card and the payment portal provide your receipt. The portals I provided are qualified providers of the IRS. You will need to keep records of the ES payments to file your 1040 tax return.
6.) Once you pay the required tax, you can make an additional estimated tax a day or so prior to filing. This allows for a fast refund (no money out-of-pocket). Because the refund is fast you can maximize the benefits should you need them for your vacation plans.Don’t worry about the verbiage on line 65. All that means is if you applied part or all of the previous year’s refund to the current year, you add it to your estimated payments and report the number on Line 65.
I’ve been meaning to ask a question, but I didnt want to ask without a related post. I feel this post is my open door. What can you tell us about IRS mandated minimum employer withholdings? I currently have my W4 set to 99 exemptions.
The result is I’ve paid $0 in federal income tax in 2017. I’ll only owe $2500 or so, assuming I hit my HSA and TSP contribution goals and achieve my rental income goal.
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My intention is that I will change my w4 toward the end of the year to get the IRS their money. However, I considered underpaying so I could charge some of what I owe for CC bonus purposes, but I didnt want to underpay to a point I’m penalized. My understanding is that if I owe less than $1000, theres no penalty.
Your post seems to achieve my objectives better, as it indicates I don’t need to use my W4 at all. I can use estimated tax payments instead, perhaps even one lump some to meet the annual obligation and net a bonus.Anyway, I’m still curious about my questions. Is the 99 exemptions putting me in danger of being flagged for mandatory withholding? What is the most I can owe the IRS without triggering a surcharge as a W2 employee?I appreciate the post, smart way to manufacture spend and utilize tax refunds as necessary. I’d think the IRS or CC companies would clamp down if a lot of people did this one. Bill, the IRS doesn’t care if you pay by credit card and neither does the credit card company.
That you get bonus points has nothing to do with paying your taxes.The IRS says if you claim exempt you do not “expect to owe any taxes” for the year. I’ve never seen the IRS come in and force someone to withhold more. (Okay, I’ve seen it, but it has been a while and in every case the taxpayer was years behind in their taxes owed.) Changing your exemptions on the W-4 is a normal process.
Rarely does the IRS get involved in that process. As long as the government is getting their money in a timely fashion there should be no problems.The $1,000 rule to avoid penalties is true. If you owe less than $1,000 and pay in full by the due date without extensions there is no interest or penalty added to the balance due. Another safe harbor involves using last year’s tax liability. If you pay (withholding or estimated taxes paid on time) an amount equal to or greater than last year’s liability you can owe more than $1,000 and still avoid penalty and interest if paid by the due date, not including extensions.What I propose in this post is you can switch withholding for estimated taxes to harvest credit card bonus rewards. Using this method on a card without the bonus, even if the card pays back 2%, is kind of a waste of time.
However, to harvest a big bonus it starts to make sense if your normal spending is low, as it is for many around these parts.Here are a few more. Hello Keith,Thank you for this massive hack. Hey Keith,I’ve been mulling this over for a bit and have thought about marking myself as “exempt” on my W-4 in order to stop withholding taxes (and start making quarterly payments with my credit cards), but I can’t find anything to back up your statement that the IRS won’t care about what I put on the W-4.Reading through this IRS doc on withholding , it indicates that I’m not allowed to claim exempt or increase my number of allowances artificially. Noah, it’s not enforceable if you owe no taxes at tax time. The IRS can inform your employer to reset your exemptions, but I’ve only seen this when the taxpayer is in arrears. The penalty only applies if your tax liability is too large when you file.
There are several outs. The easiest to remember is never owe more than $1,000 and there is no penalty if you pay in full by the due date. That includes ES payments. Anytime you owe more than a thousand, pay it.
This might be every pay period.BTW, a tax form is not tax law. The IRS has a history of demanding more than the Tax Code requires.
Rather than claim exempt you could claim 9 exemptions. This would effectively do the same thing. The exemption code in the payroll software is 99.Finally, this only works with federal taxes. There are a few states it works with (three if memory serves). But every other state cannot be paid by credit card.
This sounds like a very interesting strategy. I do have a question as to the legitimacy of claiming ‘exempt’ on a W-4 form with my employer. I know you’ve been preparing taxes for many years so you know you’re stuff, but is it OK with the IRS to claim Exempt when you have a tax liability? “No tax liability” is not the same thing as “no taxes due”, is it?I was reading on a Bogleheads article here:, that there is a risk of getting an IRS “lock-in-letter” where you will be blacklisted from ever being able to change your W-4.Would it also work if you just leave your W-4 status alone and not make quarterly estimated taxes, but just make a single over payment during the following year’s extension? You might draw the IRS attention for making a single overpayment per this strategy, but at least you wouldn’t be accused of claiming Exemption status on your W-4 if you really do have a tax liability and should not necessarily be claiming Exempt. Eric, no tax liability is different from no tax due.
However, in this instant it is the same. The IRS cannot force you to overpay your taxes. I can only think of what would happen if you contacted your Congressman and inform them the IRS wants to bankrupt you by forcing you to give the government a large interest free loan. I give it 30 seconds.A lock-in letter results from large balance dues on your tax return and claiming exempt or a large number of exemptions.
I’ve only seen this when the person getting the letter has past balance dues owed the IRS. Once again, if you pay your taxes via another route, the IRS has a hard time forcing you to overpay through withholding.There have been several comments revolving around this same issue.
If the IRS at some point forces you to withhold from your wage you can always stop the strategy in this post. People are overthinking this.Owing the IRS more than $1,000 (safe harbor) at tax time will cause you to owe an interest penalty.
If you pay at least the previous year’s liability in a deposit (withholding) you also meet the safe harbor. If you file an extension and owe you will also face an interest penalty.Finally, claiming Exempt is an extreme example to illustrate what is possible. Unless you are going for mega miles you will be less extreme. Changing your W-4 is not unusual. Claiming a large number of exemptions or Exempt late in the year is a strategy some people use to increase their take home pay for the holidays.
They overpay early in the year to cover their annual tax liability and reduce their withholding (sometimes to zero) late in the year.To your first question again. A liability is something you owe. If you don’t owe you don’t have a liability.One more thing to keep in mind.
Withholding is considered paid equally throughout the year; estimated payments are credited when received by the IRS. You can’t reduce your withholding and pay a large tax liability at tax time and expect no consequences.
This is a strategy that works only if you use common sense. Keith,I may have missed the answer to this in the comments.
Due to a modest income, a child, a homemaker spouse, and a couple other tax credits, I have zero tax liability for 2017. I did have some 2017 withholding, which I will get a full refund of.I could really use a couple thousand dollars of spend to meet a signup bonus. So my question is Could I make a tax payment for 2017 via credit card in, say, February 2018 even though I owe no taxes, and then file my 2017 tax return a week or two later to get my ordinary refund plus a refund of the non-necessary credit card payment?
Keith,In your post, you said: “Anytime during the year you need a massive amount of extra spend to satisfy multiple new credit card bonus requirements you simply pay the IRS an estimated payment for the 4th quarter of the previous year. ”However, when I go to any of the tax payment sites you linked to above, paying an estimated payment for 2017 is no longer an option. Can you help figure out how I would actually go about accomplishing paying an estimated payment against 2017 once I’ve filed my extension?
Do I just make the payment against the regular 1040 Series rather than the 1040-ES estimated tax? They probably open 2018 fairly quickly here as 2017 ES payment due dates are all past.
My guess is they don’t roll over to the new tax year until they close the old. As soon as they accept 2018 payments you can catch up. Just hold the funds until the IRS can accept the money for 2018.As an FYI, the IRS computers only opened two days ago for efiling for individuals. The initial deluge meant acknowledgements were slow. My office’s response time from the IRS today is back to normal with acceptance received in a few minutes.