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Filing Your Taxes? Follow These Tax Deduction Tips for Freelance Writers…

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Article by Kristen Pope on The Write Life site:

Freelance writers wear many hats, from being their own stand-alone IT departments to scheduling meetings and interviews, ordering office supplies, designing web pages, invoicing and being their own accounts-receivable departments.

But one category many freelancers feel ill-equipped to tackle is the world of taxes.

Missing deductions is leaving money on the table, and declaring income incorrectly can easily get you into hot water with the IRS.

Rus Garofalo was a writer, performer and video producer when he started working for a tax preparer. He soon realized he and his friends were doing their taxes wrong and losing money as a result. Realizing many freelance creative professionals did not know the intricacies of the tax world, he decided to do something about it. He started Brass Taxes in 2008.

“It made me angry that I had been losing money because I was…

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Viv Drewa is a Michigan native who has enjoyed reading and writing since 1963. Though she studied medicinal chemistry at the University of Michigan, her passion has always been writing. She had been awarded third place for her nonfiction short story about her grandfather's escape from Poland. Later, she rewrote this story and was published in the "Polish American Journal" as "From the Pages of Grandfather's Life" and has republished it on Amazon.com as a short story. Viv took creative and journalism courses to help in her transition to fulfill her dream of becoming a writer. She worked as an intern for Port Huron's 'The Times Herald", and also wrote, edited and did the layout or the Blue Water Multiple Sclerosis newsletter "Thumb Prints." She also has a business promoting authors. Owl and Pussycat Book Promotions. Viv, her husband Bob and their cat Princess, live in Port Huron, Michigan.

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