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Ink Business Unlimited® Credit Card: Earn $900 Bonus Cash Back After You Spend $6k in the First 3 Months Expired

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Chase is offering $900 bonus cash back after you spend $6,000 on purchases in the first 3 months from account opening with the Ink Business Unlimited® Credit Card. The annual fee is $0.

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Chase is offering $900 bonus cash back after you spend $6,000 on purchases in the first 3 months from account opening with the Ink Business Unlimited® Credit Card. The annual fee is $0.

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Earn $900 bonus cash back after you spend $6,000 on purchases in the first 3 months from account opening
Earn unlimited 1.5% cash back on every purchase made for your business
No Annual Fee
Redeem rewards for cash back, gift cards, travel and more through Chase Ultimate Rewards®.
Earn rewards faster with employee cards at no additional cost. Set individual spending limits for greater control.
Round-the-clock monitoring for unusual credit card purchases
With Zero Liability you won't be held responsible for unauthorized charges made with your card or account information.
0% introductory APR for 12 months on purchases
Member FDIC

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You can. You just need to put your ssn and sole proprietorship as the business type and only you as the employee
Something's wrong with this deal description, says $95 annual fee and immediately after, No annual fee.

I think someone got their wires crossed between Ink Preferred and Ink Unlimited. Which one is the increased SUB actually for?
You don't need to. You can own a business with your ssn as sole proprietorship type. There is nothing faking about it. You can intend to start something and start slow after getting the card as well.

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kqian111
10-08-2024 at 01:19 PM.
10-08-2024 at 01:19 PM.
Quote from Knightshade :
Nobody makes 1 billion in salary. You can count on your fingers, with fingers left over, the number that even get over 1/10th of that in total compensation (and most of THAT compensation tends to be stock options, not cash salary)

What they do is make 1B in say the value of their stock in the company going up- then instead of selling the stock (incurring taxes) they borrow against the stock at lower-than-available-to-the-poors interest rates, and thus avoid having significant taxable income at all.



Not just CEOs, but wealthy people in general- Here's a well known NYU professor explaining it

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/in...00643.html




So long as the assets keep increasing in value as much, or more, then the interest on the loans (which is pretty trivial to do unless you're a REALLY terrible investor- heck at these numbers even government bonds will often pay more than the interest on your asset loans), you keep getting richer while paying no income tax, since loans aren't income.

Even better- that interest is often deductible, so you can use it to offset what income you DO have and avoid taxes on that too.

There's some added complexity for stock-based compensation like huge options packages--- those you're going to get forced into paying taxes on- but all that really means is some % of the SBC is sold off to cover the tax bill on the remaining, majority, of the SBC-- and you then use the method described at the top to never have to sell or be taxed on further gains on the remaining stock.
I don't think what you described above is anything out of the ordinary from what everyday ppl can do with their house in taking out a HELOC or another mortgage against the growing equity value. Billionaires just do it at a much bigger scale.

And as you said, they already got tax on that stock option grant as ordinary income. It's as if the post-tax stock was put in a Roth vehicle going forward with no tax on gains.
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VjXBSparta
10-08-2024 at 11:53 PM.
10-08-2024 at 11:53 PM.
Quote from asterosdeals :
If I can't spend all $6k at the end of 3 months, i guess I can just get a bunch of gift cards as they'll appear on the statement as regular charges.
Can someone confirm this is ok?
Yes you can do that. When I got my Ink Cash card, I bought nearly 3000$ worth of visa gift cards and then usd them for my insurance payments and medical payments. This was considered part of the initial spend and I got the bonus.
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EL2002
10-09-2024 at 12:15 AM.
10-09-2024 at 12:15 AM.
Quote from asterosdeals :
If I can't spend all $6k at the end of 3 months, i guess I can just get a bunch of gift cards as they'll appear on the statement as regular charges.
Can someone confirm this is ok?
Yes you can that's what I usually do. Last year or two years ago can't remember but it was spend 6k in 3 months to get 1k. I simply just put extra on some of my bills & then got 1k worth of gift cards at Walmart & loaded the two cards right there at the register in my Walmart account to make sure I actually got the money since you hear about all these GC scams. Then I did the same thing with amazon, went to best buy picked up 2 Amazon GC's put $500 each on them & loaded them up on my amazon account at the register. Then what I usually end up doing anyways is just applying the Bonus Points to my credit card statement anyways, you can't beat getting free money lol
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memphisambition
10-09-2024 at 07:07 AM.
10-09-2024 at 07:07 AM.
Quote from Knightshade :
Here's a breakdown of all the Chase rules for applications and opening cards- 2/30 would be the relevant one here-

https://www.asksebby.com/guides/chase-rules

I'm not aware of any chase rules based on a 90 day window.

These rules generally apply to all chase cards, though the page does cite a couple that are specific to specific cards.
Much appreciated!
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Knightshade
10-09-2024 at 05:45 PM.
10-09-2024 at 05:45 PM.
Quote from kqian111 :
I don't think what you described above is anything out of the ordinary from what everyday ppl can do with their house in taking out a HELOC or another mortgage against the growing equity value. Billionaires just do it at a much bigger scale.

Not quite.

For one-
They also do it at vastly lower interest rates.

If I refi my house to pull cash out, I'm looking at interest rates of like 6-7%.

If I'm a billionaire taking a margin loan against my stock I'm paying like 2%.

It's trivially easy to keep your money ahead of a 2% loan-- it's considerably more challenging to do that with a 7% loan.


Further- the amount you need to live (and thus how much of your assets you're leveraging this way) is trivial for the billionaire--They could do it for decades and never be at risk of overleveraging.... while if you wanted to pull a full years decent living expenses out of a normal persons house you'd run out of equity within a few years for most.


But most importantly- If I take out the $ out of my house with the mortgage refi or HELOC--- I have to pay it back. On a regular basis, and over a specific term.

If I take a huge margin loan against even huger assets, I never have to pay it back unless the value of the assets crash.

The meager interest just adds to how much I owe--- but since my assets are growing as fast or faster, the % of my assets being leveraged never gets worse, and the broker never askes me for a penny.

That, alone, is an insanely massive difference.




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And as you said, they already got tax on that stock option grant as ordinary income

MAYBE.

Some options avoid this.

And of course lots of OTHER assets billionaires often have avoid this (inherited generational wealth for example-- or stock in a company they were part of starting up and still hold after it went public)



Quote from kqian111 :
. It's as if the post-tax stock was put in a Roth vehicle going forward with no tax on gains.
Except that a ROTH has a cap on how much you can put it-specifically to avoid rich people benefitting from one.

And a cap on how MUCH you can put in (a max of $7000 a year) to avoid you dodging taxes on growth of large amounts of assets.


This "one trick" avoids both those limits for the rich. (and removes the need to wait till they're retirement age to be able to freely leverage the funds and growth too!)
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StrongMint325
10-09-2024 at 06:24 PM.
10-09-2024 at 06:24 PM.
Man i forgot the two year rule! Now got rejected and took a credit hit!
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Fanime
10-09-2024 at 06:25 PM.
10-09-2024 at 06:25 PM.
Quote from StrongMint325 :
Man i forgot the two year rule! Now got rejected and took a credit hit!
There is no two year rule for ink cards.
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Vice_Monkey
10-10-2024 at 07:43 AM.
10-10-2024 at 07:43 AM.
Quote from Fanime :
There is no two year rule for ink cards.
Wish I knew why they keep denying me for this card.
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wadew
10-10-2024 at 08:48 AM.
10-10-2024 at 08:48 AM.
Quote from Vice_Monkey :
Wish I knew why they keep denying me for this card.
They should send you a letter either elecftronically or in the mail that provides the denial reason. I've walked a few people through the denial reasons and how to hopefully improve their chances of approval if you want to PM me.
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Twohothardware
10-10-2024 at 05:07 PM.
10-10-2024 at 05:07 PM.
What's the process for applying for a second Chase Business Ink if I already was approved for this Ink card the first of this year?

Do I have to use different business info on the second application or choose a different Ink card? Or can I hold two of the same Ink cards?
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Fanime
10-10-2024 at 06:40 PM.
10-10-2024 at 06:40 PM.
Quote from Twohothardware :
What's the process for applying for a second Chase Business Ink if I already was approved for this Ink card the first of this year?

Do I have to use different business info on the second application or choose a different Ink card? Or can I hold two of the same Ink cards?
You can hold two of the same card. But if you're paranoid you can always product change the old one to a cash card.
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the.invincible
10-11-2024 at 06:35 AM.
10-11-2024 at 06:35 AM.
Does anyone know when this offer will expire?
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wadew
10-11-2024 at 10:14 AM.
10-11-2024 at 10:14 AM.
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Does anyone know when this offer will expire?
Offers generally last about 3 months. They usually update about a week before it expires that you only have x number of days left.
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happyusmle
10-13-2024 at 09:58 AM.
10-13-2024 at 09:58 AM.
Does Chase 5/24 rule apply for this card too?
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VjXBSparta
10-13-2024 at 02:36 PM.
10-13-2024 at 02:36 PM.
Quote from happyusmle :
Does Chase 5/24 rule apply for this card too?
It does if you are above 5/24. For approval you need to be under 5/24 but this does not count in a 5/24.
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