Texas is a seller’s market right now, but only if your numbers can survive a buyer’s flashlight. The state economy is enormous, buyers are active, and money is moving. The but is that Texas buyers tend to be deal-savvy. They ask for documentation, they verify, and...

I’ll give you the unwelcome news first. Maryland recently became a more expensive place to sell a business. The 2025 budget added a new 2% surtax on capital gains for higher earners and stacked two new top income brackets on top of the old ones. Layer in the county...

There are really two Virginias when it comes to selling a business. One is the government-contracting machine clustered around Washington in Fairfax, Arlington, and Loudoun, where a company’s value can hinge on a security clearance and a contract that legally can’t be...

I’ll be straight with you. Minnesota is one of the most expensive states in the country to sell a business in. The top income rate runs to 9.85%, the gain on your sale gets taxed as ordinary income, and Minnesota is the only state in the country that piles a separate...

Timing matters when you sell a business, and right now North Carolina has a tailwind most states would envy. It’s the fastest-growing state in the country by population, the economy is projected to add around 80,800 jobs in 2026 with GDP growth near 3%, and the state...

Missouri sellers have a tax advantage right now that most of them don’t know about. In 2025 the state stopped taxing capital gains, the first state in the country to do it. For someone selling a business, that usually matters more than anything else on the tax return,...

Wisconsin makes things. That fact sits under almost every business sale in the state. Buyers tend to be operators and regional strategics, diligence leans hard on equipment and workforce, and one state tax credit is generous enough to rewrite the after-tax math for a...

On paper, Kentucky is one of the cleaner states to sell a business in. The income tax is a flat 3.5% as of January 2026, down from 4% and still falling on a revenue trigger that points toward zero. The sales tax is a flat 6% with no city or county add-ons, which is...

Louisiana just rewrote its tax code, and the result pulls in two directions for someone selling a business. On the income side, the news is good: a flat 3% personal income tax as of 2025, a corporate rate flattened to 5.5% the same year, and the old corporate...

Six years ago, Iowa was a hard state to cash out in. The top income rate sat near 9%, there was a death tax on the books, and retirement income got taxed like everything else. Then the state ran one of the fastest tax overhauls in the country. By 2026 the income tax...