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Many happy returns: UW student donating tax service fee

Not too many full-time college students start their own business.

And it’s a fair bet that the ambitious few who do don’t give away their product to support a worthy cause.

But that’s what 21-year-old UW-Madison economics student Ryan Schmudlach is doing.

“That might have been a little bit of a mistake on my part,” he quipped, referring not to the charity but to his full plate, before adding that, “It’s working.”