Major insurance and investment companies in the United States fund it. Previously, the tax guide received honors from the two national teachers' unions who recommend it for their members. Fischer's interest in producing the tax guide is an outgrowth of his long time interest in public finance, and Glanville's interest stems from his teaching of marriage and family relations.
Taxes compose the single largest budget item for most American families.
Fischer and Glanville also write a column that is published in the American Federation of Teachers monthly newspaper, American Teacher, which has a circulation of more than one million educators across the nation.