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Paying Income Tax using CC to hit spend criteria for Infinia

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Is it a viable option to pay the income tax of me and my family members to hit the 7.5L spends criteria required for Infinia? I have a regalia gold with a limit of over 8L. Right now, I am short 2L and by the time I have to pay the taxes it will be about 3.5L. Will this be an issue for HDFC?

Paying taxes for 2-3 people in my family will comfortably put me above the 7.5L threshold and yes, I am aware of the 0.4-0.7% + GST charged when paying IT using a CC. I am not concerned about this as I can easily recover this amount after I get the Infinia CC.

Please I do not need any unnecessary opinions on how "if you can't spend then card isn't for you" or "try moving all spends instead and wait". Thanks.
 
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LiamHouse said:
Is it a viable option to pay the income tax of me and my family members to hit the 7.5L spends criteria required for Infinia? I have a regalia gold with a limit of over 8L. Right now, I am short 2L and by the time I have to pay the taxes it will be about 3.5L. Will this be an issue for HDFC?

Paying taxes for 2-3 people in my family will comfortably put me above the 7.5L threshold and yes, I am aware of the 0.4-0.7% + GST charged when paying IT using a CC. I am not concerned about this as I can easily recover this amount after I get the Infinia CC.

Please I do not need any unnecessary opinions on how "if you can't spend then card isn't for you" or "try moving all spends instead and wait". Thanks.
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Spend 7.5L and infinia will be on its way. Since your limit is already > 8 L that’s sorted. Only condition to fulfil is spends which you will and then drop them a mail for upgrade. They’ll be happy to do that.
 
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My spouse got the Infinia by putting both our advance taxes for Q4 on the Regalia card.
All other conditions had been satisfied, but spends were lacking till then.

With the advance taxes, the spend crossed 7.5L in 6 months.
The RM approved and sent the form over.
A week later, we emailed priority redressal.

My spouse got the card.

Following that, I applied for the add on at the bank. I have no HDFC account and did not open one.
 
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My spouse got the Infinia by putting both our advance taxes for Q4 on the Regalia card.
All other conditions had been satisfied, but spends were lacking till then.

With the advance taxes, the spend crossed 7.5L in 6 months.
The RM approved and sent the form over.
A week later, we emailed priority redressal.

My spouse got the card.

Following that, I applied for the add on at the bank. I have no HDFC account and did not open one.
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What were the charges to do so? 0.80% + GST 18% so 0.944%?

Did you recover this in any way?
 
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LiamHouse said:
Is it a viable option to pay the income tax of me and my family members to hit the 7.5L spends criteria required for Infinia? I have a regalia gold with a limit of over 8L. Right now, I am short 2L and by the time I have to pay the taxes it will be about 3.5L. Will this be an issue for HDFC?

Paying taxes for 2-3 people in my family will comfortably put me above the 7.5L threshold and yes, I am aware of the 0.4-0.7% + GST charged when paying IT using a CC. I am not concerned about this as I can easily recover this amount after I get the Infinia CC.

Please I do not need any unnecessary opinions on how "if you can't spend then card isn't for you" or "try moving all spends instead and wait". Thanks.
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Did u use it for tax payment?any luck getting the infinia? Have got a pre-approved regalia gold will try ur way then.Thank u.
 
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LiamHouse said:
Is it a viable option to pay the income tax of me and my family members to hit the 7.5L spends criteria required for Infinia? I have a regalia gold with a limit of over 8L. Right now, I am short 2L and by the time I have to pay the taxes it will be about 3.5L. Will this be an issue for HDFC?

Paying taxes for 2-3 people in my family will comfortably put me above the 7.5L threshold and yes, I am aware of the 0.4-0.7% + GST charged when paying IT using a CC. I am not concerned about this as I can easily recover this amount after I get the Infinia CC.

Please I do not need any unnecessary opinions on how "if you can't spend then card isn't for you" or "try moving all spends instead and wait". Thanks.
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I did the same and got Infinia in July.. Thank God I took the decision rather than to wait for real expenses as Hdfc as hiked eligibility for Infinia now.
 
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LiamHouse said:
Is it a viable option to pay the income tax of me and my family members to hit the 7.5L spends criteria required for Infinia? I have a regalia gold with a limit of over 8L. Right now, I am short 2L and by the time I have to pay the taxes it will be about 3.5L. Will this be an issue for HDFC?

Paying taxes for 2-3 people in my family will comfortably put me above the 7.5L threshold and yes, I am aware of the 0.4-0.7% + GST charged when paying IT using a CC. I am not concerned about this as I can easily recover this amount after I get the Infinia CC.

Please I do not need any unnecessary opinions on how "if you can't spend then card isn't for you" or "try moving all spends instead and wait". Thanks.
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Hi! Did u pay the taxes and get the infinia upgrade? Tax counted towards milestone?
 
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