tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1025201337316610324.post2143847566011762224..comments2023-12-31T20:43:08.499-05:00Comments on THE STILETTO GANG: Oh, Boy, Doing Income Tax Makes Me Wonder by Marilyn MeredithUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1025201337316610324.post-51755700872523350892015-02-17T11:28:24.399-05:002015-02-17T11:28:24.399-05:00This year Turbo Tax insisted I must file Schedule ...This year Turbo Tax insisted I must file Schedule C because I got two 1099-MISC forms from Amazon and from On-Demand Publishing. So I gathered up all my receipts from my travel to Left Coast Crime and the publicity materials I had used last year (postcards, bookmarks, promo posters, T-shirts, tote bags, pens, all from Vistaprint, which I recommend wholeheartedly for the good quality of the loot!) and even the paper and toner cartridges. I added this all up.<br /><br />But then TT said I had lost $1,950 dollars (negative!) and could not take a deduction because I had not made a profit. Sheesh! I knew that!<br /><br />Then I had to go delete that Schedule C and file a different one, on which I did not try to mark ANY costs at all, but only put in the 1099-MISC forms as income. I had to tweak the files a few times to make it understand that I don't want to be audited. (LOL)<br /><br />We don't have any tax shelters or ANYTHING but our mortgage interest and IRAs (pitiful though they are). We really need something like that. I should use that in my next Ari French mystery--she is broke like me. It could feed into the mystery if someone is cheating on his taxes and someone else is about to call that IRS fraud number to expose his scheme. Hmm. . ..Shalannahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05503978745207805622noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1025201337316610324.post-11181457450452940752015-02-17T11:05:39.874-05:002015-02-17T11:05:39.874-05:00Oh yeah. I keep records all year for the IRS, bot...Oh yeah. I keep records all year for the IRS, both for my writing expenses and those of my husband's gunsmith business. But we just take them to our accountant, rather than do that ourselves. Don't have your endless punk. And I agree, if we wrote for the money, we'd be in this for the wrong reasons.Jackie Taylor Zortmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05922687677280332797noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1025201337316610324.post-75294053701555891382015-02-17T09:57:53.942-05:002015-02-17T09:57:53.942-05:00Thanks, Pam, I'll do just that!Thanks, Pam, I'll do just that!Marilyn Meredith a.k.a. F. M. Meredithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04179984154939161530noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1025201337316610324.post-76852604323011362632015-02-17T09:25:50.180-05:002015-02-17T09:25:50.180-05:00Good blog, Marilyn. Keep enjoying your life, keep...Good blog, Marilyn. Keep enjoying your life, keeps you young.Pam Hopkinsnoreply@blogger.com