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Self Employment Ideas

Article by Jeff Schuman

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A self-employed person works for himself/herself instead of asan employee of another person or organization, drawing incomefrom a trade or business. This is less stable than working as anemployee but tends to earn a higher hourly income or rate.

In its simplest form, the individual and his business are oneand the same entity. This makes the owner personally liable forall the debts of the business. To avoid this, he may choose toincorporate his business, protecting his personal assets fromcreditors or others taking legal action against the business.

Self-employed workers cannot contribute to a 401K plan, unlessthey self-incorporate and set up a 401K plan for the company,but this requires some significant paperwork. Most self employedset up a Self Employment Plan (SEP) IRA, which allows them tocontribute up to 20% of their income, up to ,000 incontributions, to the SEP per year. This is significantly higherthan 401K plans.

If a self-employed person’s client goes bankrupt, the bankruptcompany’s actual employees usually have first rights to whatevercash the company had. Next is the IRS, and then all the externalcreditors, including the self employed worker.

Self-employed workers are paid directly by clients or by theirbusiness, and some proportion of these payments will be due tothe government as income tax. Unlike an employee of a company, aself-employed person must pay tax after receiving his taxableincome.

In order to avoid resulting interest payments to the IRS forpaying taxes in arrears, self-employed workers in the UnitedStates usually pay estimated taxes quarterly, and at the end ofthe year, the tax return determines if these estimated paymentswere enough. Another tax implication is that a self-employedworker must pay both the employee and employer portions of theFICA tax (so instead of 6.2%, they must pay 12.4% until theymake enough that FICA is no longer paid). Self-employed workersmust also pay 2.9% instead of 1.45% for Medicare on all income.

On the other side, self-employed workers can take far moredeductions than an ordinary employee. Anytime a self-employedworker visits a client, the trip expenses are deductible (thededuction for driving any car is .385 per mile plus any tollsincurred).

Other expenses such as uniforms, computer equipment, cellphones, etc. can be deducted if there is a legitimate businessuse for these items. Since the chances of being audited by theInternal Revenue Service are relatively slim, many self-employedworkers likely overstate their deductions. One deduction thathas a reputation for raising a “red flag” at the IRS is thededuction for a home office.

Many people would simply put a desk in an attic, perhaps with anold computer on it, and try to take a deduction (fordepreciation). Home office deductions are legitimate, althoughit has to be a legitimate office. The IRS will also overruleother flagrant deductions, such as buying a Yacht and naming itafter your company. If you’re an accountant or dentist, such adeduction likely won’t be valid.

If someone is self-employed, but works for only one client, andis otherwise indistinguishable from a regular employee, then theIRS will probably require the company to treat him as a regularemployee.

The US Internal Revenue Service provideds Schedule C and SE ofForm 1040 to assist self-employed workers in payment of theproper amount of tax.

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Self Employed question by williamhernandez48: what is the maximum percentage of income tax that a self employed person will pay?
What is the percentage of income tax paid for self employed people who make 10s of millions of dollars per year?

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Answer by Steve
The total tax rate depends on their level of income. The highest marginal tax rate is 35% for federal income tax. For self-employment tax, there is 12.4% tax on net profits that is capped at $ 102,000 and there is another 2.9% on all profits.