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Splitting Your 2026 Festival Tix into Payments? Here’s How To Do It Right

Key takeaways Splitting a music festival ticket into payments with buy-now-pay-latter apps isn’t […]
The Lemonade Stand: Lessons of Money in a New World

A table with a hand-drawn sign. My mom’s big pitcher. A few lemons. Some water. Sugar. A lot of […]
Beyond the Airfare Hacks, the Two Hidden Travel Savings You Don’t Want To Miss

Key takeaways The budget-minded hacks to travel smarter this summer Some travelers think they […]
Summer 2026 Doesn’t Have To Wreck Your Budget. Here’s a Simple Plan.

Summer’s often an expensive time of year. And, according to a recent Credit Karma survey, nearly […]
Best Financial Advice for Stay-At-Home Moms

As a stay-at-home mom, you’re also the CFO of your family. Here’s how to hold down the fort on […]
I Started Paying Attention To AI Stocks and Nobody Was Talking About Taxes

Key takeaways I’ve been investing long enough to know what gets left out of excited market […]
Watching the World Cup, I Started Wondering What the Staff Actually Owes in Taxes

Key takeaways The hidden tax of a dream job in professional sports I was watching a World Cup […]
COVID-Era Tax Refunds: File Form 843 by July 10

Paid IRS penalties or interest on your 2019–2022 taxes? A recent court ruling means a COVID tax […]
Quiz: What Kind of Entrepreneur Are You?

Entrepreneurs come from all different walks of life… and business management styles. There’s no […]
Here’s When I Realized My Side Hustle Had Become a Real Business

Key takeaways I remember the exact moment. Orders started coming in from all over the world, and […]
Your Business Is Profitable. Are You Paying Yourself Like It Is?

Key takeaways Let me ask you something that I ask almost every client at some point: “How much […]
What I Wish Someone Had Told Me Before I Started Scaling My Business

Key takeaways If I could sit across from the version of myself that was just starting to scale, […]
Tax Season Is Over. Here’s How I Plan To Make Next Year Different as a Business Owner

Key takeaways April 15 just passed. Maybe you filed on time. Maybe you filed an extension and […]
A Business Owner’s Guide To Optimizing Tax Deductions

Business taxes don’t have to mean scrambling through receipts and hoping for the best. I created […]
Make the Money Moves That Actually Hold up When Markets Don’t

When the market gets shaky, the instinct is to do something. Check your portfolio, read the news, […]
The Portfolio Moves That Pay Off When Markets Get Weird

When every headline tells you they don’t know which way the market is going, the challenge […]

Cigarette Taxes by State, 2026

The highest state tax on cigarettes is levied by New York at $5.35 per pack of 20. The next highest […]
Tariff Refunds Have Wiped Out Tariff Revenue Since May

The economic damage from a chaotic tariff regime can outweigh the revenue itself, and unlike the […]
How Expensing for Capital Investment Transforms Project Economics: A Case Study Approach

The OBBBA made substantial improvements to cost recovery, but more opportunities remain for […]
Does the EU Tax Omnibus’ R&D Expensing Proposal Make the EU More Competitive?

The EU Tax Omnibus proposal would create an EU-wide minimum standard for full expensing, but it […]
Full Expensing in the United States and Canada Boost Worldwide Investment Climate

Rather than adopt temporary policies that phase out and expire, policymakers should focus their […]
Tracking the Impact of the Trump Tariffs & Trade War

The Trump tariffs have not meaningfully altered the trade balance and amount to an […]
Overview of the Tax Foundation’s General Equilibrium Model

The Tax Foundation uses and maintains a General Equilibrium Model, known as our Taxes and Growth […]
Capital Cost Recovery across the OECD, 2026 Update

The ongoing economic uncertainty from global geopolitical threats, supply chain disruptions, rising […]
Capital Allowances in Europe, 2026

Although sometimes overlooked in discussions about corporate taxation, capital allowances play an […]
A Competitive Corporate Tax Code is Key to Sustaining Strong Economic Growth

The 12-year history of Tax Foundation’s ITCI shows that tax policy is constantly in flux around […]
The WHO’s Excise Tax Policy Aims at the Wrong Target

Retail prices make poor targets for excise tax policy, often reflecting factors that have little to […]
Sales Tax Holidays by State, 2026

However well-intended they may be, sales tax holidays remain the same as they always have […]
The Hidden Costs of Foreign R&D Amortization

Foreign R&D generally complements domestic innovation rather than substituting for it, so […]
Taxing Data Processing Doesn’t Just Tax Big Tech

Policymakers are increasingly considering taxes on data processing and other businesses’ digital […]
Flawed EU Tax Disclosure Standards Will Cause Confusion

The EU public country-by-country data provides information on taxes and profits that do not align […]
How Withholding Taxes Affect Cross-Border Investment in Europe

Because withholding taxes can create double taxation and administrative friction even where foreign […]