Kemberley Washington is a former staff writer at Forbes Advisor and provides consumer-friendly tax tips for individuals and businesses. Her work goes beyond tax articles. She has been instrumental in ...

Over the years I’ve seen hundreds, probably thousands, of data breach notifications warning that a company’s data was lost, stolen or left online for anyone to grab. Most of them look largely the same ...

Christy Bieber has a JD from UCLA School of Law and began her career as a college instructor and textbook author. She has been writing full time for over a decade with a focus on making financial and ...

Historically, April is tax time. (We will hold briefly for boos.) But there is a silver lining: Most people don’t need to pay for special software to file them. Though taxes aren’t uniquely American, ...

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You never know when one of your files might reach someone it wasn't intended to reach—perhaps through an email forward, a USB stick left behind on a desk, or maybe ...

Tax returns this year have caused a state of confusion. The deadline for submitting Income Tax Returns (ITR) for AY 2025-26 ended on September 16, 2025, and a majority of people have received the ...

Many states give you two years to file a car insurance claim. Depending on where you live and the type of claim, you may have between one and 10 years to file. Typically, you have two years after a ...