The Following Is The Text Of the Free Money Tip E-mail
Sent 19th September 2003

Credit Card Costs By Up To £700/year - Best Balance Transfers

I've completely updated my Balance Transfer Deal – click here to read the full score.  It includes the best 0% rates and the best long term balance transfers and full pros and cons.

Free Tax Advice (Personal and Small Business)
The 30^th September deadline for the 02/03 tax year self-assessment forms is approaching.  The Revenue only guarantees to do the calculations for you if you submit by then. I've arranged (emotionally blackmailed) Chartered Tax Accountant Tony Tesciuba (my Uncle) to answer brief tax questions via the Chat section until the deadline.  In return I promised to say if you're looking for an accountant check out www.tesciuba.com or speak to him via Chat.  To ask a personal tax question click here.  To ask a small biz question click here.

Lloyds TSB Current Account Holders Increase Your Interest
Lloyds TSB pays 25 or 30 times higher interest for current account holders who access it via the web 6 times in three months.  If you pay your salary in and earn more than £16,000 a year, upgrade to the Plus account (its free) and then if you want just click 6 times in one day.

New Even Lower Market Leading Personal Loan.  Now 6.2%

I seem to write ‘another new cheapest' every time, rates are dropping so fast.   Liverpool Victoria online is now offering 6.2%.  Click here to read more details and what to be careful of.

Amerada/Powergen Price Rises

If you get your Gas/Elec from Amerada/Powergen your bills may be increasing up to 15%. Uswitch is the only comparison service to so far include the new tariff, so click here to see the impact.  Then click here to read my cashback comparison service article too (though Simply Energy hasn't updated the tariffs yet).  Click here to discuss this price rise.

Have you got yourself out of debt crisis?
I'm looking for real life feel good stories about people recovering for serious debt crisis for my book.  If this is you and you don't mind it possibly being published please click here to write it.

Free Camera Mobile Phone w/very cheap tariff.  (Chat Tip)
This is a superbtchat tip this one by Kevin.  Very clever.  He explains it so well, I don't need to.  Click here to get a free camera phone on a £10/month tariff

Avoid Overpaying At Motorway Service Stations: (Chat Tip)

Find the nearest alternative cheapest option click here.

Martin's Little Fun Things

Check out the latest poll on the site - pick your Celeb Financial Adviser - click here.  Or for sheet plain silly, but it made me laugh click here

30,000 Thank Yous

Amazingly another big landmark reached.  This week the 30,000^th person signed up to the e-mail list and an average of 4,000 people access the site daily.  Considering it's only been going since Feb – I'm gobsmacked.  Thank you so much.  We've taken money off casinos/banks/credit card/utility companies amongst others.  The biggest saving reported is £23,642.15 click here to read it.  The more people join the bigger Money Savers power gets.  So thank you so much and keep emailing your friends and tell them to come along and join up!

To Ask A Question

Please don't email me directly to ask a question – just click here and simply pop one in the Questions section of the Chat board.  It will be answered much more quickly there.

I hope you save some money

Martin Lewis

Money Saving Expert

www.moneysavingexpert.com is a completely independent website dedicated to saving money.  It is run by Martin Lewis, the Money Saving Expert on ITV1s This Morning, who is also a contributor to Radio 4 & 5, LBC, BBC1 Watchdog, ITVs Package Holidays Undercover and columnist for the Sunday Express amongst others.