Description
A practical and caring workbook to help you simplify your taxes as a self-employed person, including mindset-shifting exercises, practical checklists, and simple systems to get your US taxes feeling simpler.
In the Taxes for Humans Workbook, seasoned self-employed artist and tax educator Hannah Cole delivers a hands-on workbook for freelancers, solopreneurs, creatives, and students navigating the American tax system. This Workbook supplements Cole’s Taxes for Humans book with mindset exercises, checklists, helpful illustrations, and other practical tools you can use immediately to get your taxes done with confidence and simplify them moving forward.
The resources in this book will help you get financially comfortable, smarter, and more organized. You’ll learn simple systems to improve your tax records and bookkeeping, and IRS-proof your taxes as a self-employed (Schedule C) person.
You’ll also find:
- Bookkeeping and organization tools you can apply right away to make sense of your finances
- Illustrations that make taxes understandable for visual learners
- Mindset prompts that help you with the emotional side of doing your taxes, and leading you to stress-free, easy management of your small business/freelance dollars.
Table of Contents
Introduction xi
Part 1 Mindset: Why Get Good with Money? 1
Part 2 The Why of Taxes 13
Part 3 Three Essential Systems 29
Part 4 Doing Your Taxes 47
Part 5 Tax Review and Adjustment for Next Year 97
Part 6 Recap, Reflect, and Repeat 113
Acknowledgments 121
About the Author 123
Index 125
