Start logging any mileage you drive for work, including any commute to and from work. As a contractor you can claim all of those miles.
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NoiseDesign - May 17, 2012 12:39:30 pm PDT #866 of 1416
Our wings are not tired
Ginger - May 17, 2012 4:41:44 pm PDT #867 of 1416
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
At this point, smonster, just track your spending, or throw all your receipts in a box, which I fear is my method. You can get away with fairly token tax payments this year, since they don't have a history, and figure it out at the end of the year. Or you can take the advice of less sloppy people.
Laura - May 17, 2012 4:51:16 pm PDT #868 of 1416
Our wings are not tired.
Tools, work clothes. Expense expense expense!
Liese S. - May 17, 2012 5:15:18 pm PDT #869 of 1416
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Expensify. If you do most of your purchases via debit, it can be an easy way to track and categorize your spending. For all reasons, but also for business.
Vortex - May 18, 2012 6:33:50 am PDT #870 of 1416
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
Smonster, your may want to get another account for this. Mic you get a checking account with a debit card, you can track al of your work expenses. keep the receipts, but your statements are an itemized list.
Laura - May 26, 2012 9:37:16 am PDT #871 of 1416
Our wings are not tired.
This must be the place where I can toot my own horn! My company develops software and yet I have zero programming background. My education is accounting and my role in the business has been management and customer service. I am often in the middle man role of translating between the tech and non-tech people because I understand them both, somewhat.
Anyway, my priorities and Development priorities are often not aligned and I try and figure out work arounds. So this morning I tackled a problem that will eventually be solved in code, but I get pressure from end users to solve.
And with the help of Google and an understanding of our SQL tables I wrote a super complicated (for me) query that pulls info from a bunch of tables and gives me a report we really need. So, in your face smarty pants programmers! Keep being slow and I'll just do it myself.
Also, really expect to impress the co-workers so extra cool.
Thank you for listening to my bragging. Had to get it out somewhere!
sumi - May 26, 2012 9:40:38 am PDT #872 of 1416
Art Crawl!!!
Woo hoo, Laura! You go girl!
Scrappy - May 26, 2012 9:46:33 am PDT #873 of 1416
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Laura kicks SQL ass!
§ ita § - May 26, 2012 9:47:50 am PDT #874 of 1416
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Oh, man, but if you do that, the developers will never help you on time again! They'll just fall back into their pit of Mass Effect 3, and that's the last you'll ever see of them...
Ginger - May 26, 2012 10:21:45 am PDT #875 of 1416
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Toot that horn, Laura!
Keep being slow and I'll just do it myself.
That's their plan.