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 Tracy Thomas on 2025-01-26 at 04:07

@temerity I thought I was old fashioned to mainly pay for things in cash at the farmers market, neighborhood restaurants, etc. Everything old is new again.

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Toot

Written by Temerity on 2025-01-26 at 04:39

@TracyTThomas hey we live in an increasingly invasive techno hell and sometimes the low tech solutions are the most secure ones. You can't hack cash.

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