Click Here! Tax Help for Writers
Therese Walsh on Jan 10 2007 | Filed under: Business, Click Here, RESEARCH
It’s that time of year again: Time to gather receipts and hope you actually brought in more than you spent on writing! Here are a few links I’ve culled from here and there (many from Charlotte Dillon’s excellent Links for Writers page) to help you in your quest to make this year’s tax season a cool-and-easy ride to profit.
Linkies Galore:
Taxes for Writers by Cyn Mason
Authors and the Internal Revenue Code by Linda Lewis
Writers Guide to Taxes by Linda Adams and Emory Hackman
A Little Tax Advice for Writers by Mary Anne Mohanraj
Fiction Factor links by Julian Block on:
Profit vs. Pleasure: Rules on Losses
Estimated Taxes: Another Deadline Coming Up
Award Winning Writers, Photographers and Artists are Losers Under the Tax Laws
How Long to Keep Financial Records
TAXES AND THE WRITER at Publish Lawyer
A Home Business and Taxes article by Teresa Stone
Here are a few links specific to freelancers as well. Good tips within that can apply to any kind of writer:
Taxes for Freelancers by Durant Imboden
Tax Answers for Freelance Writers at About.com
From Fiction Factor:
Filing Time Reminders for Freelancers
Better Tax Breaks for Freelancers
Want to know even more? You can buy a book on the subject, Writer’s Pocket Tax Guide, at Foolscap & Quill’s.






















Good stuff. I just incorporated this year, so I’ll be doing a lot of these things. Been saving up receipts. Do you think receipts for fiction novels count? After all, it’s ‘market research.’
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YES, they do count, according to my CPA, but just a fraction. I think he said we could take 30% of their value and claim them as research. Check with your own CPA (or put a quick call into one if you don’t have one yourself) before you do it, though.
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I hope I can start doing this with my taxes NEXT year. :-) Lots of great links – thanks!
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Hey, all kinds of links for tax time in one place-great. I’ve soooo put a link to this in one of my blog posts!!
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