01/04 - First Friday!

Regardless you need to report it. Just be smart about it. Take the deductions the American government gives you and use the Sch C form regardless of how much you make. Line 21 Other Income is just giving them money. TurboTax has a program for this that will walk you through Exactly how to depreciate Business Use of Home which a good majority of your deductions would come from. New computer? Depreciate it.

 

Yep, they're gonna have my tired ass for around 24 hours. Assuming I sleep well during the night and don't have obvious apnea (which we don't think so), they'll keep me during the day for the Multiple Sleep Latency Test - basically they torture me to keep me awake for 2 hours, and then see how quickly I fall asleep during a nap, then repeat 4 or 5 times.

you'll have to check with the high rollers, but I was under the impression if Amazon handles more than $20k in a calander year for you they send a 1099 to cover their own ass. @Kadauchi and @Tripsa I think have met that threshold and can possibly shed more light.

 

the thing i wonder is if they give a tax form to MTurk instead, but yea there are requesters here that i've done 600+/yr and not gotten any tax forms directly. i still ofc report the income on Schedule C

 

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SPAM Lab [A1QVPRQENZY76G] Video Memory(~ 6 minutes) - $0.50 | PANDA

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I haven't actually read it in depth, as soon as I saw the "it's self income", I stopped because I've been all around the self-income block many a year. Last year I had 2 different business (turk and my failed etsy store), so it was Schedule SE and C for EVERYONE!

 

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David A Dunning [A2N0EK65M4HGDY] Playing Blackjack(~ 20 minutes) - $2.00 | PANDA

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$25.84 / hour
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since we talking taxes

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/tax...1jN8CXn9ccvzDqXt3Vic6LgXiANQBzuPefcKlTpTLlQlc

aint nobody getting that thing till the gov't gets it together

 

Speaking of taxes.
What FREE software from the irs website for people who are making under 60k or whatever it is - will actually let you do self-employment income for free without trying to upcharge you?

 

I feel bad for all of those employees. Backpay isnt guaranteed either.

 

good morning, happy friday!

 

I thought the House ended shut down yesterday though?

 

I'm curious of that's a thing.....I think maybe the e-file one? But you basically have to do it by hand and then just type in your calculations. I got tired of getting 80% of the way through for various other services to be like "Hold up, you have more than the EZ, pay us or GTFO" so I just do them by hand

 

It still has to clear the Senate and White House.

 

House proposed something, Senate laughed and said we ain't gonna waste our time voting on it.