Write for TaxesLedger

What we accept from contributors, what we refuse, and how we mark a paid link.

✓ Paid links disclosed✓ No rate card

TaxesLedger publishes a small number of third-party articles. Anything we were paid for is labelled as sponsored at the top of the page and its links carry rel="sponsored". Unpaid contributor exchanges are ordinary editorial links. We publish no more than two third-party articles in a calendar month, we have no rate card, and we are not listed on any guest-post marketplace.

Two ways an outside article gets published here

There is no third way, and which one applies is decided before drafting starts rather than negotiated afterwards.

Sponsored. Money changed hands. The article carries a visible disclosure naming the sponsor above the first paragraph, and the sponsor's link is marked rel="sponsored" so it passes no ranking credit. Google's spam policy is explicit that a paid link qualified this way is not a violation; an unqualified one is. We take the first arrangement and decline the second.
Contributed. No money, in either direction. A relevant publication writes something genuinely useful for our readers, we do the same for theirs, and the links on both sides are ordinary editorial links. These are the placements we actually want more of.

What we publish

The site is a tax reference. A pitch has to belong to that subject: US sales tax and nexus, Canadian GST/HST, EU and UK VAT, e-commerce and marketplace compliance, accounting and bookkeeping operations, invoicing and payroll mechanics, or cross-border trade. If the connection to tax has to be argued for in the pitch, it is not there.

The bar is the same one our own guides are held to, written down on the editorial policy page:

Every factual claim must be sourceable to the authority that sets it — a revenue department, the CRA, the European Commission. Not another calculator site.
Rates belong in our data layer, not in your prose. A hard-coded rate in a submitted draft gets replaced with a live reference or cut.
At least 900 words of substance, and thin-but-true beats padded. A sponsor's draft gets no discount for being a sponsor's draft.
A real named author with a checkable professional identity. No pen names, no invented credentials, no "senior tax expert" with no trace.

What we refuse

These are declined on sight, whatever the offer, and we publish the list so nobody wastes an email: gambling and betting, cryptocurrency and web3, CBD and cannabis, payday and other high-cost lending, essay mills and assignment-writing services, adult and dating, pharmacy and weight-loss compounds, replica goods, and anything in the business of reselling backlinks.

These verticals pay the most, which is exactly why they are on the list rather than off it. A tax reference that will run a casino advertorial for the right number is telling its readers something true about how much its other pages can be trusted.

Link policy, in full

One link to the partner's own domain. Not three, not a link in the bio as well.
The anchor is your brand name or your bare domain. Not a keyword phrase. Keyword-rich commercial anchors repeated across unrelated sites is the pattern that gets both parties looked at.
Paid means rel="sponsored". This is enforced by our build rather than by an editor remembering — the component that renders a partner link derives the attribute from the ledger entry, and the build fails on a hand-written one.
No sitewide, footer, navigation or homepage links are available at any price, to anyone.

How to pitch

Use the contact page and send four things: the angle in two or three sentences, which of the two arrangements above you are proposing, a link to something you have published before, and the page you would want linked. A full draft is not needed at this stage and does not help your odds.

We reply to pitches that are a fit within about five business days. We do not reply to templated outreach, and a pitch addressed to "Dear Sir/Webmaster" or offering a list of unrelated topics is the clearest possible signal that the sender has not read this page.

Why the rules are this specific

This site is a reference people use to price goods and prepare filings, and it is read because the numbers on it have been right. A programme that quietly traded that for placement revenue would be spending the only asset the site has. Writing the terms down — including the ones that cost us money — is how the programme stays small enough to be worth running.

Last updated: September 11, 2026 · Rate source metadata is tracked in the TaxesLedger tax data registry.

Data methodology reviewed by M. Imtinan Farooq — Data Engineer who builds and maintains TaxesLedger.

Imtinan Farooq is a data engineer who builds and maintains TaxesLedger's calculators and rate database. He is not a CPA, tax attorney, or enrolled agent, so the site doesn't rely on his opinion. Every rate is linked to an official source, such as a state department of revenue, the Canada Revenue Agency, or a national VAT authority. Each record stores that source and its verification status, so the rate can be checked against it. If you spot an error, contact us and we'll correct it. This is an educational calculator, not tax, accounting, or legal advice. LinkedIn

Data Sources: State DORs · Canada Revenue Agency · EU VAT authorities · Tax Foundation references

Frequently asked questions

Quick answers to the most common questions users ask.

Do you accept guest posts?

Yes, but rarely, and on narrow terms. We publish no more than two third-party articles in any calendar month, and third-party work is capped at 5% of everything published on the site. If a pitch does not teach a tax, accounting or e-commerce compliance reader something specific, it is not a fit here regardless of who is offering.

Are sponsored articles marked as sponsored?

Always, at the top of the article, before the first paragraph. The disclosure names the sponsor and states plainly that they paid for the placement. Links to a sponsor carry rel="sponsored", so they pass no ranking credit. This is both Google's stated requirement for paid links and an FTC Endorsement Guides requirement for US readers, and we would do it anyway.

Can I get a dofollow link?

Only through an unpaid contributor exchange, where no money moves in either direction and the article is genuinely written for our readers. Anything we were paid for is marked rel="sponsored" without exception. If a followed link is the point of the outreach, we are the wrong site and we would rather say so in the first email than after an invoice.

What do you charge for a sponsored placement?

We discuss terms directly and do not publish a rate card. We are also not listed on guest-post marketplaces and do not intend to be — those inventories are scraped and resold, and being in one is a permanent public statement about what a domain is for.

How many links do I get?

One, to the sponsor's own domain, with the brand name or the bare domain as the anchor text. Not a keyword phrase. This is enforced in our build, not left to an editor's judgement, so it is not a term we can flex on a given week.

Will you publish an article we have already written?

Send it and we will read it. In practice most pre-written submissions are rejected because they were drafted for a different audience and carry claims we cannot source. Everything we publish is fact-checked against the official authority — a state revenue department, the CRA, the European Commission — and an unsourceable claim gets cut whether it is ours or yours.