Photobucket - Video and Image HostingIt’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.

Therese Walsh co-founded Writer Unboxed in 2006. Her debut novel, The Last Will of Moira Leahy, sold to Random House in a two-book deal in 2008, was named one of January Magazine’s Best Books of 2009, and was a Target Breakout Book in 2010. She's never been published with a lit magazine, but LOST's Carlton Cuse liked her haiku best on Twitter, and that made her pretty happy.
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