Taxes For Humans
Understand your money with clear, simple, tax explainers. Tune in to the Sunlight Tax Podcast for guidance on freelance taxes, bookkeeping, and self-employed finances. Plus, practical systems that make independent work sustainable.
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Read from 1 post headline in the last 30 days. A newsletter that names a company only in the body of a post will not appear here, and a mention is not a recommendation — it only means the symbol came up.
Growth history
Subscribers (thousands, nightly)
12K on Sep 10, 2026 → 12K on Oct 21, 2026
Followers (thousands, nightly)
Rank in Substack’s finance leaderboard: #301 today · #302 a week ago · #293 a month ago
Stats worth sharing
Tracked since Sep 10, 2026 — 62 daily snapshots so far. The card below is built from what we track and refreshes nightly.
- Percentile
- Top 58%
- Best rank seen
- #259
- Rank, 7 days
- +1 place
- Rank, 30 days
- −8 places
- Posts
- 8
- Reactions per post
- 2
- Reactions tracked
- 59
- Tickers covered
- 1
of 525 ranked finance newsletters
on Sep 18, 2026
last 30 days
average, recent posts
across 28 posts
in tracked posts
Most-reacted post we have seen: Permission to need no permission — 13 reactions on Nov 3, 2026.
Recent posts
- Permission to need no permission
- From Teacher to Real Estate Agent: How Robin Mehler Built a Business That Gives Back
- Taking the leap to full-time freelance: common blindspots not to miss.
- Taking the Leap: The Tax Learning Curve of Moving to Full-Time Freelance
- Spooky tales of being ghosted by your accountant
- Boo! Scary Stories of Accountants Ghosting
- Part 2: How I’m deducting my NYC trip
- Don't Forget These Deductions: Parking and Tolls
- How I’m deducting my upcoming NYC trip
- Don't Forget These Deductions: Cell Phone and Internet
- Interest rates are up. Should I care?
- Interest Rates Are Up: What That Means For You
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