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Self-Employment Tax: How the 15.3% Rate Really Works

Self-Employment Tax: How the 15.3% Rate Really Works

Self-employment tax is the 15.3% Social Security and Medicare tax self-employed people pay on their own earnings. Here is how the IRS calculates it on 92.35% of your net profit, where the 2026 Social Security cap sits, and why every tracked expense lowers the bill.

Sep 29, 2026·9 min read

Business Travel Expenses: What the Self-Employed Can Deduct

Business Travel Expenses: What the Self-Employed Can Deduct

A business trip is only deductible when it clears two IRS tests, and only when your records prove it. Here is what the self-employed can write off, and the receipts each cost needs.

Sep 24, 2026·10 min read

Amended Tax Return: How to File Form 1040-X (2026 Guide)

Amended Tax Return: How to File Form 1040-X (2026 Guide)

An amended tax return corrects a Form 1040 you already filed. This guide covers Form 1040-X, when to amend and when not to, the 3-year/2-year refund deadline, how to amend a Schedule C for a missed business deduction, and what happens after you file.

Sep 23, 2026·11 min read

IRS Audit Guide: What Triggers One and How to Be Ready

IRS Audit Guide: What Triggers One and How to Be Ready

Most IRS audits are letters asking you to document a deduction, not agents at your door. This guide covers how the IRS selects returns, the three audit types, how far back the IRS can go, what triggers a small-business audit, and how contemporaneous records turn an audit into a non-event.

Sep 22, 2026·11 min read

1099 Late Filing Penalty: 2026 Amounts and How to Avoid It

1099 Late Filing Penalty: 2026 Amounts and How to Avoid It

File a 1099 late and the IRS charges by how late you are: $60, $130, or $340 per form for returns due in 2026. Miss the recipient copy too and a second penalty applies. Here is the full schedule and how to stay out of it.

Sep 17, 2026·11 min read

HSA for the Self-Employed: 2026 Limits and the Deduction

HSA for the Self-Employed: 2026 Limits and the Deduction

If you are self-employed with a high deductible health plan, an HSA is tax-free going in, growing, and coming out. This guide covers the 2026 contribution limits, who qualifies, where the deduction goes, and why it lowers your income tax but never your self-employment tax.

Sep 15, 2026·10 min read

Business Tax Extension: Deadlines, Forms, and the Pay Rule

Business Tax Extension: Deadlines, Forms, and the Pay Rule

A business tax extension buys six more months to file, not six more months to pay. This guide lays out the 2026 IRS deadlines entity by entity, which form each business uses (7004 or 4868), how the estimate-and-pay rule works, and what missing the date costs.

Sep 2, 2026·10 min read

Solo 401(k) Contribution Limits 2026: The Two-Hats Math

Solo 401(k) Contribution Limits 2026: The Two-Hats Math

A solo 401(k) lets you contribute as both employee and employer. For 2026 that stacks a $24,500 elective deferral on the 20%-of-net-earnings employer share, up to the $72,000 cap. See the arithmetic for a sole proprietor and an S-corp owner.

Sep 1, 2026·10 min read

Accountable Plan: Reimburse Yourself Tax-Free From an S Corp

Accountable Plan: Reimburse Yourself Tax-Free From an S Corp

An accountable plan is how a corporation reimburses its owner or employees for business costs without the payment becoming taxable wages. For a one-owner S corporation it is the only route left to pull home office, phone, and mileage out of the business tax-free. Here are the IRS rules.

Aug 31, 2026·11 min read

Estimated Tax Penalty: How Form 2210 Computes What You Owe

Estimated Tax Penalty: How Form 2210 Computes What You Owe

The estimated tax penalty is daily-compounded interest at the IRS underpayment rate, charged on each installment you paid late. This guide shows how Form 2210 figures the number, why the IRS usually computes it for you, and the three ways to reduce or erase it.

Aug 28, 2026·11 min read

Form 1099-K in 2026: The Real Threshold and 6 Myths

Form 1099-K in 2026: The Real Threshold and 6 Myths

For 2025 and 2026 the federal 1099-K floor is back to over $20,000 and 200 transactions, after the One Big Beautiful Bill reversed the $600 threshold. This guide corrects the six costliest 1099-K myths against the IRS, from taxing a friend's repayment to copying Box 1a onto Schedule C.

Aug 27, 2026·10 min read

Net Operating Loss Rules for the Self-Employed (2026)

Net Operating Loss Rules for the Self-Employed (2026)

When a sole proprietor's business deductions exceed all their income, the leftover can become a net operating loss that carries into future years. Here's how to figure an NOL for 2026, the excess-business-loss limit, the no-carryback and 80% rules, and how to claim it on Form 172.

Aug 24, 2026·11 min read

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