26 Blog Posts and Articles About Freelance Taxes

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So…I’m sitting here thinking about how my quarterly taxes are due in January and probably many of you are having the same experience. Freelance writers don’t pay taxes in the same manner as those who are salaried employees. We have to plan ahead and predict. For freelance veterans, this may all seem routine. However, [...]

How to Solve Freelance Tax Problems

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by Thursday Bram
When something goes wrong with an employee’s taxes, her employer is often responsible when everything is said and done. For freelancers, though, no employer is going to take the time to correct errors. That means that you have to take responsibility for making sure that all of your paperwork is in order [...]

Tax Tips for Freelance Writers Part 4: When a Writer Needs to Hire a CPA

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by Thursday Bram
While the standard business advice is that you need to hire a CPA as soon as you go to work for yourself, most freelance writers don’t need to call on a CPA quite that fast. As long as your taxes are fairly straight forward, you can take your 1099s to a tax [...]

Easy to Forget Income Tax Deductions

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by Thursday R. Bram
One of the perks of being a freelance writer is that we don’t have a lot of major expenses when we start up our businesses. When I started freelancing, I already had a computer and an internet connection. Just because we start out with very few expenses doesn’t mean that we [...]

Freelancers and Taxes Part 2: Introduction to Quarterly Taxes

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by Thursday Bram
The biggest difference between doing your taxes as an employee and doing them as a freelancer, at least in the U.S, is figuring out just what to do about quarterly estimated income tax. Since your clients pay you as a contractor, rather than an employee, they do not make sure that the [...]

85 Hacks to Help Your Freelance Writing Career

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In blogging years, FWJ has been around a long time – about four and a half years. That’s a lot of jobs and a lot of tips. As I was thinking about the evolution of this blog, I thought it might be handy to combine a lot of the advice given out here over [...]