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When to Prepare for Annual Property Taxes?
Don’t Wait Until the End of the Year to Prepare for Annual Property Taxes on Leased Equipment Let’s start at the beginning for those new to leasing equipment. Property taxes are owed on leased equipment. In most states, property taxes are due by December 31, though...
Can You Imagine a Big Bank Calling YOU to Defer Your Equipment Lease Payments After a Disaster?
Global Financial & Leasing Services’ Clients Can As we’re writing this blog, it’s hurricane season. Right now, millions of people in the southeast are keeping an eye on several storms moving across the Pacific Ocean. Many of these people are small or...
5 Reasons Startups Turn to Global Financing & Leasing Services for Equipment Financing
And Not the Big Banks You, Google, Apple, Hewlett Packard, and Microsoft have something in common. No matter what your business or industry, you are a startup, just like they were. They had a disruptive idea, and you have an idea on which you can build an empire –...
Why Is It So Hard for Startups to Get Financing?
It’s Not You, It’s the Big Banks… Well, and a Little Bit You Startups are caught in a notorious Catch-22. Your business is starting out and needs financing to obtain the equipment required for it to grow. However, your business can’t grow without the financing it...
What are Capital Leases?
Understanding Capital Leases We previously discussed Fair Market Value leases. Today let's talk about Capital Leases. Capital leases also are known as buck-out leases, dollar buyout leases, lease purchases, finance leases, and nominal leases. Unlike Fair Market Value...
What is a Fair Market Lease?
Not All Equipment Leases are the Same A lease may seem like a straightforward term, meaning you make payments on business equipment for a set amount of time and once the leasing term ends, the equipment may be returned to the lessor. In the simplest terms, a lease is...
Global Financial & Leasing Services, a Veteran-Owned Leading Equipment Financing Provider
Once a Leader, Always a Leader. We Know No Other Way. Prior to founding Global Financial & Leasing Services and before earning a reputation in the industry as a successful leasing executive while starting other equipment financing companies, Jim “JD” Jenks served...
Save Cash When Leasing Equipment
More reasons to consider leasing Leasing equipment protects your cash flow. Leasing equipment has a lower upfront cost, which is incredibly appealing if you have fewer available capital funds than operating funds. Also, leasing gives you time to pass the cost of your...
Should a Company Lease or Buy Equipment?
What smart business owners understand about leasing equipment vs. buying equipment A smart business owner would never hire a dynamic, new sales associate and pay him or her three years’ salary in advance. No. Instead, a smart business owner ties compensation to the...
Top 10 Equipment Acquisition Trends for 2017
$1.5 Trillion to be Spent Predicts ELF Despite signs of Bad Moon rising, the Equipment Leasing and Finance Association predict optimism and spending by U.S. businesses, nonprofit and government agencies over $1.5 trillion in capital goods or fixed business investment....