Being Self-Employed : How to Run a Business Out of Your Home, Claim Travel and Depreciation and Earn a Good Income Well into Your 70s or 80s

Designed for navigating through the tax code, this guide helps the self-employed keep a greater percentage of their income. The importance of keeping up-to-date records, measuring net profits and losses, and handling the 'SE tax' - a flat tax which every self-employed person is subject to - is discussed. Particular attention is paid to preparing for audits, changing tax status after marriage or divorce, and becoming financially confident through better knowledge of the tax code.