Self Employed
Breaking Firewood
In my latest trip to Madhupur, I meet some kids who were forced to choose between having food on the table or getting an education. These kids, some as young as eight years old, have to work full-time. They are able to study part-time (two hours a day) because some local community members got together and made a informal school for them to attend for free. They are taught Bengali, English, and math by a school teacher who gets paid a mere a month as a salary.
This photo is of Johnny – a 16 year old boy who dropped out of school in order to earn a living. He is one of the students at the part-time school I mentioned. He owns and runs this tea shop. This photo is of him working at his stand. He’s breaking firewood for the woodstove he uses to boil the water for the tea he makes.
This photo is a supplement to a video I have on YouTube. You can check that video out here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9IS-3Z5EC4
Becoming Self Employed – Is It Right For You?
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Self-employed Tax Solutions: Quick, Simple, Money-Saving, Audit-Proof Tax and Recordkeeping Basics for the Independent Professional
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June Walker tackles the most vexing problems facing the self-employed: bad recordkeeping and tax ignorance. Her solutions are simple, quick and audit proof: a recordkeeping method that works and a guide through the tax maze that ends with more money in the indie’s pocket and less money going to Uncle Sam.The self-employed operate under various names — sole proprietors, freelancers, subcontractors, free agents, independent professionals – but the IRS and other taxing authorities require all of t
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Self Employed question by O: How do i become self employed?
What are some things i can do to bring in some money? I’ve heard that some people make big bucks by attaching themselves to large purchases. How do i do that when im self employed? Is that possible?
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Answer by Pat
“attaching themselves to large purchases”????
You mean like with a stapler?????
YOU BECOME SELF EMPLOYED BY STARTING YOUR OWN BUSINESSS.
DUMBASSSS.
A great book for a new Sole Proprietor!,
This book is a fun and great read!
I met June Walker via Google. I had a tax question about reimbursements from a client and went searching online. I found a great article on June Walker’s website explaining the solution to the exact tax sitiuation I was in! I also found out that she had a book coming out soon, and after reading the tax explanation for my problem on her website, I knew I had to have her book.
After I recieved it, I couldn’t put it down. All the tax myths I had heard about being an individual in business were suddenly cleared up by June Walker using lots of easy to understand, real life examples.
June Walker obviously has lots of experience with a diverse group of clients and is able to sum up the tax problem they were having and the solution she provided for them quickly and clearly.
If you are an individual and are ready to start your own business but fear the IRS and tax burden, get this book. It will rid you of the anxiety of keeping tax records for your own business and get you on the right track for providing clear simple tax records for your new business!
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|Awesome for any Indie Business,
This book has been a real help. I recently started my own online company (SP not INC thanks to June!) and I don’t know where I would have gotten this information were it not for this book. It is an easy read (unheard of for a tax book!) and tells you all you need to know to file your business income taxes and save yourself a ton of money in the process. It’s your money, not the government’s, so save your receipts and save some of it for yourself!
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|A Few Issues but Holding a Few Gems Too,
I pretty much never comment about the font a book is done in, but let me start out my review by saying that this book had the oddest font choice I’ve seen. The letters were very thin, squarish, and actually hard to read against the white. It made me realize just how important something like font can be in a book.
So, on to the content. This book is written by a self-employed person, for self-employed people, to help them manage their records for taxes. She doesn’t want you to DO your taxes – she wants you to hire someone, like her, to do them for you
. She just wants you to be informed about what is going on, and to perhaps help prod your tax person along if they’re not very good.
In case you were thinking this book was a mere “nice to have”, she says in her introduction that “Such complications [of not handling this properly] could prove fatal to your enterprise.” I love it how books say “you must buy me or you will DIE A HORRIBLE DEATH!!!” A page later, she promises “If you use this method, you will never miss a tax deduction” which I sort of doubt
So this book has already hit a few of my buttons in book reading – threatening certain doom if I don’t get the book, promising the moon, and being hard to read 
Much of the first part of the book focusses on whether you should go into business for yourself, what it means to be self employed, and whether you should be a DBA, Sole Proprietor, LLC, etc. Hopefully anybody looking for tax solutions has already gone through those stages and isn’t looking for all their information on these important decisions in a few pages of a tax book.
But on to the meat. When you get into the realm of *taxes*, the book really does well. It explains the difference between personal gifts (tax deductible up to $25 per person per year), entertainment expenses, free giveaway items (pens etc), charity donations, and more, in very clear language.
The book goes into travel deductions, home office deductions, leasing and buying equipment. It gives a ton of examples. Some people might find them annoying – I admit that many of them are quite silly. Still, it’s easy enough to skip over them if you’re not into cutesy examples, but if they help you absorb a concept, they are there for you to read.
Like with any business book, there are a lot of very common sense things in here – but a few very key tips. The interesting thing is of course that depending on who reads it, they might find different things to be fascinating vs well known. Something that one person says “of course” to, someone else might say “That’ll save me thousands!” So it’s good that all bases are covered in here.
Well recommended as a book to at least get out from your local library, or to get and share around your network of business-owning friends. It’s not a book that I need to sit on my library shelf, but it was worthwhile to read and glean a few important tidbits from. I’ll now pass it along to other business owners to let them pick out their own gems.
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