Ancestors

Written by Temerity on 2025-01-25 at 18:34

Free tax advice from your anarchist accountant:

(USA federal income tax)(1099 NEC) If you are self employed and work from home, measure the square footage of your 'home office' (or whatever your workspace is), find out what percentage it is of the square footage of your house, and deduct that percentage of your annual rent and all of your utility bills for the year from your taxes as a work expense.

(USA federal income tax) If you are taking classes check and see if you qualify for the AOTC tax credit. You don't need a form 1098T from your school necessarily, (most schools will not make these available to you until Jan 31st), but you can claim up to a $2,500 deduction on tuition expenses, text book expenses, and other school supplies like computers.

(USA general advice) If you are paying someone for a product on venmo, no you're not. Use like a pizza emoji or something in the description and never check the box that says you're purchasing a product. That's extremely rude and tells venmo to report the money you gave that person as taxable income. So rude, don't do it, especially at like fundraisers, bake sales and shit like that.

Fuck turbo tax. Use Freetaxusa if doing your own taxes. (free USA federal income tax filing and state tax filing for like $20)

Every tax dollar you manage to get back in refunds is a dollar you took away from the American war machine.

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Written by Temerity on 2025-01-25 at 18:42

More free advice from your anarchist accountant:

Use cash. The government doesn't need to know about your purchases, especially on money spent in local economies, at farmers markets, craft fairs and stuff. Tip in cash as often as possible. Your waitress would rather stick cash in her pocket than get her tips on her paycheck anyways, and tips given in cash are usually not reported on taxes so more of the money makes it to the employee and not to the government.

It is worth the extra time to remember to pull out cash before going to bookfairs, conventions, farmers markets, art walks and fundraisers. Your community will appreciate you for making the effort to pay in cash.

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Written by Temerity on 2025-01-25 at 19:03

I know it's not a very common form of mutual aid but I do taxes for free for radicals and anarchists in California. Usually income taxes but I'll also help with small businesses too if they aren't ethically shitty.

Taxes are scary and complicated on purpose and I want you to get your money back. Feel free to tag me on questions or send me a private toot for my email if you're confused and need help.

It's gross that taxes have been made so complicated as to create an entire industry of tax professionals that wouldn't exist otherwise. I enjoy undermining that industry by making tax knowledge free.

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Toot

Written by Askan 🇪🇺 on 2025-01-25 at 19:07

@temerity

I assume you do not German tax support?

For me they are quite hard, but I am also lazy

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Descendants

Written by Temerity on 2025-01-25 at 19:10

@askans unfortunately I have zero experience doing taxes outside of the US so I would not be able to provide any advice with any level of confidence on German taxes.

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Written by Askan 🇪🇺 on 2025-01-25 at 19:14

@temerity

That would have also been a rather super-human capability

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