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A family filling up a 15-gallon tank once a week for five straight months would save about $35 under President Trump’s proposed federal gas tax holiday. That comes to roughly $1.70 per trip to the pump, less than the price of a large coffee, and it assumes the savings actually reach consumers in full. Economists…
A U.S. wine importer recently recovered roughly $110,000 from Customs and Border Protection after a tariff reclassification changed the duty rate on bottles the company had already brought into the country. No publicly available Customs records document the specific transaction, the product classification involved, or whether the refund resulted from a formal exclusion petition or…
A parent who borrowed $40,000 in federal Parent PLUS loans to help a child finish college could be paying $593 a month on a standard repayment plan by this fall. That same parent, earning $55,000 a year, might pay closer to $200 a month under the only income-driven option ever available to Parent PLUS borrowers….
A new washing machine costs more this spring. So does a car, a laptop, and the copper wiring inside a house under construction. The reason traces back to a series of tariff actions that, taken together, now represent the largest effective tax increase on American households since President Clinton signed the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act…
If you paid IRS penalties on your 2020 or 2021 tax return, the federal government may owe you money, and you have until July 10, 2026, to stake your claim. That is roughly 57 days from mid-May 2026, and once the window closes, it likely closes for good. The IRS has already refunded or credited…
Fill up a mid-size sedan once a week for five months and skip the federal gas tax every time, and you would pocket roughly $35. That is the real-world value of President Trump’s proposal to suspend the 18.4-cent-per-gallon federal gasoline tax, based on consumption figures from the U.S. Energy Information Administration. It works out to…
The clock is running out for parents who borrowed federal PLUS loans to pay for a child’s college education. On June 30, 2026, a consolidation window closes permanently, and any Parent PLUS borrower who has not acted by then will be locked out of every income-driven repayment plan the federal government offers. No extensions. No…
A taxpayer who owed $50,000 on a late 2021 return and paid the bill 12 months later would have been hit with roughly $3,000 in failure-to-pay penalties alone. The IRS announced relief for exactly that kind of charge back in January 2024, and millions of people got automatic refunds. But not everyone did. If you…
A taxpayer who paid a $2,400 failure-to-file penalty in August 2024 has until roughly August 2026 to claim a refund. But someone who paid a similar penalty in June 2024 faces a deadline that lands in mid-July 2026, barely two months from now. And once that window closes, the IRS keeps the money for good,…
Trump wants to suspend the 18.4-cent federal gas tax – but the math shows families would save just $35 over five months Fill up a midsize sedan once a week from June through October, and President Donald Trump’s proposed federal gas tax holiday would save your household about $35. Not per month. Total. That figure…