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Starting your own business, even if you’re following a passion or a lifelong dream, is no picnic. Along with having a baby and buying your first house, it might be the time in life when you’re the most desperately in need of guidance. Advice is probably flying at you from all directions, but you’re never […]

What could be more carefree than being a student? You eat leftover pizza for breakfast, you do your laundry once a month and you occasionally show up in class when the cost-benefit analysis of grades versus effort tips. This is exactly what people who are not currently students assume: College life is nothing but a predictable, drowsy […]

Everyone knows that one of the best reasons to have a family is to get those sweet, sweet tax breaks. Kids also fill your heart with joy and make you a better, more selfless person or whatever, but come April, love doesn’t pay the bills. But how can you make the most bank on your brood? […]

If your first question about filing taxes with tip income is, “Uh, how do I file taxes with tip income?” then you’re in the right place. Unless you’re an expert tax filer — or you just have an amazing long-term memory that allows you to recall your detailed tax returns from year to year — you probably […]