![]() ![]() In addition, you’ll see a box in which you can plug in the relevant numbers for a home-office deduction, but I recognize that not every 1099-income type will claim that. ![]() ![]() When possible, I’ve aligned types of costs with TurboTax’s vocabulary to reduce springtime tax-prep confusion. This template is organized by types of expense, with the biggest categories in my case–travel and meals and entertainment–getting their own sheets. Here you go: Make a copy of this template (go to the File menu and select “Make a copy…”) to your Google account and get to work. I was glad to give my friend a boost past that phase, and now I want to do the same for any self-employed types reading this. Instead, I had to survive some excruciatingly stupid accounting practices and eventually thumb-wrestle my way to marginal competence. A friend of mine started freelancing at the end of last year, so I decided to give him a boring but useful present: a blank copy of the Google Docs spreadsheet I use to track my expenses.Ī systematic, easily smartphone-accessible way to record the costs of doing business–organized so you can copy the year-end totals into your Schedule C tax form–is exactly the thing I needed when I started freelancing almost eight years ago.
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