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Do freelancers always owe taxes?

The Internal Revenue Service considers freelancers to be self-employed, so if you earn income as a freelancer you must file your taxes as a business owner. While you can take additional deductions if you are self-employed, you'll also face additional taxes in the form of the self-employment tax.

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OVERVIEW

Freelancing certainly has its benefits, but it can result in a few complications come tax time. The Internal Revenue Service considers freelancers to be self-employed, so if you earn income as a freelancer you must file your taxes as a business owner. While you can take additional deductions if you are self-employed, you'll also face additional taxes in the form of the self-employment tax. Here are things to consider as a freelancer when filing your taxes.

Income

Your first step as a freelancer is to gather and report all sources of your income. If you're like many freelancers, you have many sources of income. Keeping track of all your income can be more difficult than if you were a traditional employee, in which case you'd get a single W-2 form for reporting purposes. As a freelancer, you're likely to get numerous 1099-NEC forms, (1099-MISC in prior years) one from each of your clients. If you receive payments through online payment services such as PayPal, you might receive a 1099-K. Payers will also send these forms to the IRS to report your income. Beginning with tax year 2022, if someone receives payment for goods and/or services through a third-party payment network, their payments are required to be reported on Form 1099-K if more than $600 was processed during the year. Those payments can include income as a result of business (self-employed, independent contractor, freelance, gig-work), real estate rental, hobby sales, personal item rental or sale. Self-employment tax When you're self-employed, you are your own boss—which is great news until tax time. In addition to regular income tax, freelancers are responsible for paying the self-employment tax of 15.3% in 2022. This tax represents the Social Security and Medicare taxes that businesses pay and that employees have taken out of their paychecks automatically. As a self-employed freelancer you are considered both the employee and the employer. Tax liability For most people, the ultimate goal when you file your taxes is to reduce your liability to the lowest allowable amount. As a freelancer, you'll likely have more business expenses than a typical employee, and you can take a number of tax deductions not commonly allowed as a regular employee. However, you're only allowed to take deductions that are ordinary and necessary for the operation of your business. Typical deduction categories As a general rule of thumb, freelancers can write off many expenses including: business-related food

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travel and lodging

office expenses

required equipment or materials

phone and Internet service The IRS requirement for business tax deductions is that expenses must be ordinary and necessary. Home office Since most freelancers work from home, the home office deduction can apply. The IRS allows you to take a deduction for many expenses ranging from rent to utilities for the portions of your home that you use as an office. The catch is that your office space must be exclusively used for your self-employment work; you can't "borrow" your kid's room from 9 to 5 and consider that space your home office nor can you use the same space for a job that you work at as someone else's employee. Travel and meals Travel and meals are some of the trickier tax deductions as a freelancer. You're allowed to deduct the costs of traveling to a job—with the exception being commuting to your office—and business meals with clients are also deductible, but usually at a 50% rate. However, your expenses have to be necessary for the development and operation of your business. You can't simply write off your vacation costs as "business expenses." Education and certifications If you're a learning buff and your interests overlap with your profession, your educational costs may be tax deductible. If you take classes to get certifications in your field or to enhance your business knowledge, you can typically deduct those expenses. The same is true for business related licensing, registration or certification costs you have. As with all freelance expenses, these deductions need to directly relate to your business. For example, a class on gardening skills would not typically be considered ordinary or necessary if you're a computer programmer nor would education that trains you for a new career.

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