{"id":98,"date":"2020-10-12T14:23:23","date_gmt":"2020-10-12T14:23:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sexworkertaxes.com\/?p=98"},"modified":"2020-10-12T14:23:23","modified_gmt":"2020-10-12T14:23:23","slug":"five-reasons-sex-workers-file-their-damn-taxes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sexworkertaxes.com\/index.php\/2020\/10\/12\/five-reasons-sex-workers-file-their-damn-taxes\/","title":{"rendered":"Five Reasons Sex Workers File Their Damn Taxes"},"content":{"rendered":"

1) Tax returns are the only proof of income you have if you\u2019re self-employed and paid mostly, if not entirely, in cash.<\/p>\n

2) It\u2019s far better for the IRS to have your numbers to start with than to let them come up with their own.<\/p>\n

3) If you get caught after not paying taxes for a number of years and get hit with a five-figure bill, it really sucks.<\/p>\n

4) You become another person contradicting the stereotype of sex workers as tax cheats who don\u2019t contribute to society.<\/p>\n

5) It makes you (even more) morally superior to GE.<\/p>\n

Things you need to file if you are an independent contractor stripper\/model\/performer\/camgirl, an escort, sensual touch provider, etc:<\/p>\n

Form 1040
\nSchedule C for income from a business (you are a business)
\nForm 8829<\/a>\u00a0for home office deduction (you have a computer in your home where you\u2019re doing business, yes?)
\nYour receipts for work-related supplies, travel, and other expenses
\nRecords of your income<\/p>\n

Even if you lack accurate records, give it your best shot and file. Even if you can\u2019t pay right now, file. Even if what you do is illegal, file (you don\u2019t have to write down what you do. We are all \u201centertainers\u201d). Read\u00a0this piece over at the Awl<\/a>\u00a0for some good reasons why you should file no matter what. It\u2019s so, so much better to have YOUR realistic numbers than to have the IRS say, \u201cHey, we have this 1099 from your club, where you sold $1500 in VIP rooms, so we\u2019re assuming that was a normal night for you, so we\u2019re calculating your tax debt based on that,\u201d or \u201cWell, we saw on this\u00a020\/20<\/em>\u00a0special about escorts that $2000\/hour is a rate people pay in New York, so let\u2019s start there.\u201d<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t care if you\u2019re gonna fudge it! Don\u2019t tell me about it. Don\u2019t tell anyone about it, for that matter. I\u2019m not telling you to file because I think we owe it to the country or because I\u2019m a bleeding-heart liberal or because I think the Tea Party is supremely misguided because they aren\u2019t storming the gates of GE and Bank of America to demand they bear their burden of the tax load. I\u2019m telling you to do this because it COVERS YOUR PRETTY PROFESSIONALLY SEXY ASS. Having personally fucked up with taxes before and knowing several dancers and escorts who\u2019ve been in deep shit with the revenuers, I speak from experience when I say it\u2019s to your advantage to stay on top of your taxes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

1) Tax returns are the only proof of income you have if you\u2019re self-employed and paid mostly, if not entirely, in cash. 2) It\u2019s far better for the IRS to have your numbers to start with than to let them come up with their own. 3) If you get caught after not paying taxes for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7,6,5],"tags":[29,30,24,25,26,10,28,27,8],"class_list":["post-98","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-irs","category-sex-workers","category-taxes","tag-29","tag-business","tag-financial-planning","tag-five-reasons-sex-workers-file-their-damn-taxes","tag-irs","tag-sex-workers","tag-striper","tag-supplies","tag-taxes"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sexworkertaxes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sexworkertaxes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sexworkertaxes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sexworkertaxes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sexworkertaxes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sexworkertaxes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99,"href":"https:\/\/sexworkertaxes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions\/99"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sexworkertaxes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sexworkertaxes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sexworkertaxes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}