Wasim Akram

Founder & Lead Researcher, TaxGainsCalc

Independent Web Publisher & Digital Entrepreneur

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About Wasim

Wasim Akram is the founder and lead researcher of TaxGainsCalc, an independent capital gains tax resource built for everyday investors. He started the site in 2025 on three simple principles: show the math, cite the source, and keep it free.

Since 2018, Wasim has built a portfolio of more than a dozen consumer finance websites that together serve over 100,000 readers every month. TaxGainsCalc grew out of that work after he kept meeting investors who lost money to capital gains rules they did not fully understand - not because the rules were secret, but because almost nobody showed the actual dollar math in plain language.

Every article on this site is researched from primary government sources: IRS Publications 550, 523 and 544, Internal Revenue Code sections 1221 through 1250, Treasury regulations, and the annual inflation-adjustment revenue procedures. Wasim also implements the tax logic behind every calculator on the site himself - holding-period tests, 0/15/20 percent bracket stacking, Section 121 exclusions, depreciation recapture, and the NIIT lesser-of computation - and each published figure is checked back against the official source before it goes live.

He leads the annual update cycle each fall, rebuilding calculators and rewriting affected guides when the IRS releases new inflation adjustments, and he posts visible correction notices when legislation changes rules mid-year. Every reader correction email is answered by Wasim personally. The site also runs privacy-first by design: every calculator works entirely in your browser, and none of your inputs are ever transmitted or stored.

Wasim is a self-taught engineer and publisher who learned by building real products, reading primary sources, and running his own infrastructure rather than following a traditional finance career. He shares his broader digital publishing work at digitalwasim.com.

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Experience

Founded TaxGainsCalc in 2025 after watching investors struggle to get straight answers about capital gains tax - built the site on three principles: show the math, cite the source, keep it free.
Building consumer finance platforms since 2018; a portfolio of 12+ live websites serving more than 100,000 readers every month.
Researches every article against primary government sources - IRS Publications 550, 523 and 544, Internal Revenue Code sections 1221-1250, Treasury regulations, and revenue procedures such as Rev. Proc. 2025-32 for 2026 inflation adjustments.
Implements the tax logic behind all ten site calculators: short/long holding-period tests, 0/15/20% bracket stacking, Section 121 exclusions, depreciation recapture, and the NIIT lesser-of computation.
Runs a documented pre-publish review on every article: statutory rates re-checked against the current revenue procedure, worked examples recomputed from the raw brackets, and a second figure pass after page layout.
Leads the annual update cycle - rebuilding calculators and rewriting affected guides when the IRS publishes new inflation adjustments and when legislation changes mid-year rules.
Tracks mid-year legislation - such as the 2025 One Big Beautiful Bill Act - and publishes updated guidance when rules change under existing articles.
Answers every reader correction email personally; verified errors are fixed promptly and marked with updated review dates.
Maintains the site's sources page so every calculator result can be traced back to the IRS publication or code section it comes from.
Runs every calculator entirely in the reader's browser - privacy-first by design, with no user inputs ever transmitted or stored.
Self-taught engineer and publisher - learned by building real products, reading primary sources, and maintaining his own infrastructure rather than following a traditional finance career path.