Originally Posted by akp

I'm a relative newbie here.

Taxes due today. We owe $15,912 today for state and federal, plus $15,943 in estimated taxes over the course of the year for a total of $31,855.

If I pay the entire amount with my new Chase Explorer Visa (CL will handle the payment due today, fyi), I'll pay $602 in fees.

We itemize, and our misc expenses exceed the 2%, so after tax, the fee would effectively be $392. (Am I doing this correctly???)

I'd earn 31832 United miles for the payments, plus I'd exceed the $25,000 level and would receive a 10,000 mile bonus for a total of 41,832 miles for $391.

This is well under a penny a mile and seems worth doing.

Is there any better bonus from a Visa or Mastercard? I'd get 7% bonus from Chase Sapphire, and I could get MQM from US Air but I'm not going to get much from status.

Thanks for any input.

Edited to add: sorry I just realized this was not the ideal thread. I was thinking of "bonus" differently than the OP of this thread. If desired, move this to the "paying taxes with credit card" type thread where I should have put it. I know that i should not repost so I won't do that.