Get ahead of the curve and prepare for a successful and streamlined tax season!
Discover why hiring a CPA with experience working with freelancers is important and what to discuss to ensure that your CPA is growing with you. I share some of the mistakes that I made filing my own taxes and how you can avoid them.
You’ll learn how to create systems for making tax filing easy, tasks that you should be doing to prepare for filing your taxes, and the materials that you need that will produce positive tax impacts.
Here are some things we covered in this episode:
- Why you should hire a CPA
- What type of CPA you should hire
- The mistakes that I experienced in filing my own taxes
- Why you should hire a CPA that will grow with you in your business
- The importance of meeting with your CPA and what to discuss
- What to do if you expect your income to be higher next year
- When you should consider becoming an S-Corp
- What to ask your CPA to produce positive tax impacts
- When you need to send 1099’s
- Filing your 1099 NEC Form
- Tips for organizing 1099 forms from freelance clients
- Tips for double-checking your expenses and accounting numbers
- Why you should invest in accounting software
- Deductions that you can take as a self-employed person
- How automated software can help you file taxes with ease
- Why you should overshare rather than assume your CPA will find deductible expenses
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