{"id":12457,"date":"2025-09-15T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/?p=12457"},"modified":"2025-09-14T23:11:05","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T05:11:05","slug":"monday-action-q3-estimated-taxes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/15\/monday-action-q3-estimated-taxes\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday Action: Q3 Estimated Taxes, AmEx Deadlines, Business Platinum Upgrades, and Staples Gift Cards"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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  1. Today is the last day to pay Q3 2025 estimated taxes, a manufactured spend level 102 move. A quick reminder about fees:

    – Pay 1040<\/a>: 1.75% most credit cards, $2.15 most debit cards
    –     ACI Payments<\/a>: 1.85% personal cards, 2.95% business cards, $2.10 personal debit card

    Wrapping a card with higher fees in something like PayPal will often lower them.
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  2. The American Express Business Platinum card has increased targeting on at its public upgrade link 120,000 Membership Rewards after $10,000 spend<\/a> in three months for existing Business Gold or Green cardholders.
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  3. You’ve got until Thursday to:

    – Apply for new American Express Platinum or Business Platinum cards before     the annual fee jumps by $200<\/a>
    –     Book any remaining Fine Hotels and Resorts bookings to capture the annual $200 credit<\/a> before the credit changes to $300 semi-annually and (presumably) resets
    – Use the above upgrade link before the annual fee jumps
    – Finalize preparations for     National Cheeseburger Day<\/a>

    I’d suggest you take 10 minutes and knock these out now so you don’t forget, but you do you.
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  4. Staples stores have fee free $200 Visa cards through Saturday<\/a>, limit nine per transaction.

    These are Pathward \/ BlackHawkNetwork cards.
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    Happy Monday!<\/p>\n\n\n

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    Flying Spirit on National Cheeseburger Day? There’s a burger for that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Happy Monday! Flying Spirit on National Cheeseburger Day? There’s a burger for that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_editorskit_title_hidden":false,"_editorskit_reading_time":0,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","footnotes":""},"categories":[53,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gift-cards","category-quick-hits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12457"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12464,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12457\/revisions\/12464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}