Tax Help?

Ok so I am getting around to doing my taxes. Which I am doing online for free, because I am cheap and didn't make a lot of money.

But this has been a confusing year for me with work. But what is really killing me, is I work for a small company but they don't pay with me with payroll checks they just give me a business check every two weeks.

So I'm trying to figure out how to account for this income when filling out the forms, but I have no clue how to. I guess it's freelance work (even though I am technically in their employment). I am not going to get any tax form from them. Do I need to request some kind of tax form?

How the hell do I report this without forms? :bang: Brain hurting.

Go get the EZ form and the directions, it's pretty easy. There are like 40,000,000 paid consultants in the US, you are not alone!

File it as self-employment on a Schedule C (and subsequent Schedule SE).

You'll have to supply a six-digit code for the type of work you do (found in the 1040 instructions for Sch C, pages 110 - 113) and you should do your best to list out all work-related expenses which you incurred (and can justify with receipts) so that your income is as low as possible.

You'll want your income low since it sounds like you probably have no Fed withholding so you'll owe pretty substantially for both normal tax and SE tax.

Agreed, 20% or more you will owe.

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Originally Posted by dog$

File it as self-employment on a Schedule C (and subsequent Schedule SE).

You'll have to supply a six-digit code for the type of work you do (found in the 1040 instructions for Sch C) and you should do your best to list out all work-related expenses which you incurred (and can justify with receipts) so that your income is as low as possible.

You'll want your income low since it sounds like you probably have no Fed withholding so you'll owe pretty substantially for both normal tax and SE tax.

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Aye this was how it was for me. Figure out how much mileage you had as well, you'll save quite a bit from that.

Can I claim mileage if my work paid me for it? Keep in mind they have no record of my mileage and can not prove that they paid me for it. I think I just answered my own question while typing it.

My only knowledge pertains to Schedule C, but yeah I'd imagine if they have no records of paying you for travel (Really? They don't?) even though they did... No there's no way they don't have records of that. It's somewhere in their finances.

1 out of 10 actually prove it, just don't go crazy and say you put 20,000 miles on your car for work last year.

True enough, unless they get audited, I'd imagine that could come back and bite you in the ass.

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Originally Posted by Thief Silver

My only knowledge pertains to Schedule C, but yeah I'd imagine if they have no records of paying you for travel (Really? They don't?) even though they did... No there's no way they don't have records of that. It's somewhere in their finances.

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No, it isn't. My checks were handwritten after I told them how much they needed to pay me. I never gave them a breakdown of what they were paying me for.