Tax season is here again, and you should be getting your Notice of Assessment (NOA) soon! It’s a mixed bag of emotions for me: I want to be in a higher income tax bracket… but I don’t actually want to pay the income tax. But only two things are certain in life and since I’m not about to die yet (I hope), it’s time to explore ways to make this tax less painful. Using credit cards to pay It goes without saying that you should always pay with a credit card wherever possible to earn rewards, but IRAS doesn’t accept credit cards for your tax payment. There are certainly ways to get around this, and CardUp is one such service that allows you to pay for various transactions that typically can’t be paid for using credit cards. In fact, you can do this for things like your car loan, insurance policies, rent,...