The newly self-employed often don’t realize that they must pay their own taxes—in the form of “estimated” taxes—because they don’t have an employer who automatically deducts taxes from each paycheck for them. How to do it simply: Find an accountant who handles self-employed people, and have him or her figure out what percentage you need [...]
Freelance Finance
Muck and Mire’s guide to financial serenity for the self-employed
-
Welcome to Freelance Finance
This site is run by Muck & Mire, journalists devoted to empowering freelancers, the self-employed, independent workers and creative types with news, tips and anecdotes about personal finance and money management. They struggle to follow their own advice. Remember, people: Ya gotta feed your monkey! -
Pages
Categories
- Books
- Death and Taxes
- Getting Organized
- Getting Paid
- Gurus
- Invoices
- Magazines
- Managing clients
- Non Sequiturs, Rants and Whines
- Oh Yeah, Health Care
- Online Banks
- Pay Up, Sucker
- Pay Yourself First
- People Like Us
- Pleasures of the freelance life
- Pluralis Majestatis
- Saving
- Savings goals and dreams
- Spending
- The Crushing Misery of Debt
- The Emergency Fund
- The Envelope System
- The Retirement Fund
- What We're Reading
- Whoring Yourself Out
- Why Jobs Suck
- Your Values
Archives
-
Random House to Publish Freelance Finance Book
We are delighted—no, tickled—to announce that Three Rivers Press, a division of Random House, has agreed to publish our personal finance book for independent workers. More details can be found in a recent post. What can we say? We're excited to bring our message to a national book audience. -
Recent Posts
Blogroll
Sites We Like
Tags
1099s accountant accounting career clients credit card credit card debt david allen david bach day job debt declutter economic stimulus package emergency fund feed the monkey financial independence financial records freedom freelance freelancers freelancing full-time freelance gtd gtd productivity organization taxes health care inbox independent workers interest invoice money organization oscars paperless Pay Yourself First personal finance productivity retirement salon.com sarah hepola Saving self-employed Spending target retirement taxes tax season
© 2006–2007 Freelance Finance — Sitemap — Cutline by Chris Pearson