The Tax on Your Salary - 2011-12. On January 9th 1799 the Prime Minister, William Pitt, introduced income tax to pay for the Napoleonic war at the swingeing rate of 0.83% for people earning Â£60 or more.
Basically, an ARM is a mortgage loan that has an interest rate that adjusts, or changes, usually once a year. The benefit of an ARM is that it generally gives you a lower interest rate initially. The risk is that the interest rate most likely will go up, which in turn will make your monthly payments rise.
BREAKING DOWN 'ARM Index'. The index to which an adjustable rate mortgage is tied can make a difference over the life of the mortgage. For example, one popular mortgage index is the MTA index. It is a moving average calculation, and therefore has a lag effect.