Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Robert W. Wood is a tax lawyer focusing on taxes and litigation. Why worry about deducting legal fees in the first place? Most ...

About a quarter of Americans with checking accounts are having to fork out hundreds of dollars in bank fees at a time when the cost of living is rising, costing them cash they could direct elsewhere, ...

Banks add interest to loans but they also make money by charging customers fees, sometimes just for having an account. A few dollars here and there doesn't seem like much, but it can add up. A 2024 ...

This article is the latest in the Health Affairs Forefront series, Provider Prices in the Commercial Sector, featuring analysis and discussion of physician, hospital, and other health care provider ...

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 ...

As a result, is it really appropriate to characterize management fees in general as “lost expense?” Isn’t it more appropriate to visualize management fees as capital that is expected to be fully ...

Odds are you’ve been asked to pay a small convenience fee when making an online transaction or credit card payment. But these economic annoyances could be coming to an end. Several ticketing and ...

President Biden has put exorbitant credit card late fees in his administration’s regulatory crosshairs. On Wednesday, the administration announced the proposal of a new rule to cap those fees at $8, ...

Even restaurant workers are baffled by some of them — and losing cash to boot. Darron Cardosa is a food service professional with over 30 years of restaurant experience. He has written more than 1,500 ...

Attention, all day traders and long-term investors, brokerage account fees are important to understand for one reason: Fees can impact your investment returns. Brokerage fees are charges that come ...