Filed my taxes this morning. NGL: 2011 was a good year. My accountant even remarked, “Wow. It looks like you’ve been working a lot.”
Why yes, I have. Here’s what she was able to write off for me:
- Home office and utilities.1
- My iPhone 4
- Mac OS X Snow Leopard
- Gas, oil changes, new tires, car registration, and auto repairs.
- My therapy bills… No one said being a PA was easy.
- My contributions to the Over-Priced Film School’s Alumni Association.
- My Lynda subscription.
- Netflix, movie tickets, and plays I saw last year.
- My trip to Sundance
- What I paid her last year to do my 2010 taxes
- My web sites.
I thought I’d pass that info along, in case you guys were going in to see your own accountants soon.
Footnotes (↩ returns to text)
- Not the whole thing, of course, but a decent percentage↩
Thank You for this!
This is my first year in the business & i’ve been dreading tax time. Possibly dumb question: How do I get the production company/payroll company to take my taxes out of my check so I don’t end up having to pay the IRS every year? I always mark “Non-exempt” on my form but nothing.
When you fill out your W4 at the beginning of a show, put a 0 or a 1 in Line H.
This way, they’ll take out a big chunk of your paycheck, but you’ll get most of it back come tax season.