How TaxFly is funded
Everything on this site is free. This page explains who pays for it, what we earn from, and the rule that stops any of it changing what we tell you.
The short version
TaxFly makes money from advertising, and from commission when a reader signs up to a product through one of our links. No company can pay to be recommended, to be included, or to be ranked higher. If the best option for you pays us nothing, we still say it is the best option and we still link to it.
Where the money comes from
- Advertising. Ad slots on the site, sold through advertising networks. Advertisers choose to appear next to our content; they have no say in what that content says, and they never see it before it is published.
- Commission on links. Some links to products — accounting software, savings accounts, credit products — earn us a payment if you click through and sign up. It costs you nothing and does not change the price you pay.
We do not sell your data, we do not accept payment for guest posts or sponsored guides, and we do not sell links inside our editorial content.
The rule, and why it matters
A site that earns commission has an obvious temptation: recommend whoever pays the most. Readers are right to assume that is happening somewhere. So we work in a fixed order, and it is not negotiable:
- We research and write the guide or comparison first, on the single question of what is actually best for the reader.
- Then, separately, we look for a paying link to whatever we have already chosen.
- If there is no paying link, nothing changes. The recommendation stands and we link to it unpaid.
The consequence is that our best pick is often a product that pays us nothing. That is the point. If a recommendation ever changes, it will be because the tax rules changed, the rates changed, or the product changed — never because the commission did.
How you can tell
Where a link earns us commission, we say so on the page, right next to the link, not buried down here. Blocks of partner products are labelled as partner content and carry their own disclosure. Links that pay us are marked rel="sponsored" in the page’s code, which is the standard search engines use, so it is machine-checkable and not just a promise in prose.
What we will not do
- Rank a product higher because it pays more.
- Leave a better product out because it pays nothing.
- Publish a guide written or approved by an advertiser.
- Recommend a product we would not suggest to someone we knew.
Why we tell you this
Our calculators are used to make real decisions about money, and a decision is only worth as much as the trust behind it. If you cannot tell whether a recommendation was bought, it is worth nothing to you — so it is worth nothing to us either. Being paid less on a particular page is a cheaper price than losing that.
If you think something on this site has been influenced by money, tell us and we will look at it and correct it: contact us.