A provision that made student-loan forgiveness tax-free expired in 2025. A new report shows the higher tax bills borrowers are facing.

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Edward Blum, the longtime conservative activist whose Students for Fair Admissions won a 2023 Supreme Court case throwing out affirmative action in college admissions, sees the IRS rules as a way to not only enforce that landmark decision but to influence other aspects of campus life as well.

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Jill A. Chafin is a personal finance writer specializing in transforming tough financial topics into easy-to-understand content with actionable steps. Prior to her role at Forbes Advisor, she wrote and edited content for financial publications like H..

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