For most massage therapists, the first two weeks of April are burdensome, painful weeks of organizing, preparing, and paying taxes. Much of this pain can be avoided with a few painless organization and tax pointers. By starting now you can save yourself hours of time, claim more deductions, and avoid costly mistakes preparing next years taxes.

Keep Up on Monthly Basis
We all do it, but waiting until the end of the year to do bookkeeping makes the burden of bookkeeping an over whelming task. It also costs you money because by the end of the year you will have forgotten expenses that you could have deducted and income that you should have claimed. If you keep up on a monthly basis it will take less time, and your records will be more accurate.

Make Estimated Payments during the Year
Whether massage therapy is your full time job or it provides you supplemental income, you need to make sure to pay taxes on the income you earn. If you are not already having taxes withheld through your payroll or you earn more than the amount of taxes being withheld, you may need to pay estimated quarterly taxes. Topping up your taxes during the year helps prevent the horrible news of finding out next April that you owe more taxes than you thought.

Enter Expenses and Income into the Computer
Get organized by entering your expenses and income in the computer. Bookkeeping software like Quicken or MS Money are fairly inexpensive and make this an easy organization task. If this type of software isn't a possibility for you, consider keeping track of expenses and income using a spreadsheet. Having all your expenses and income organized on the computer will keep you from searching for records, bills, bank statements and credit card statements plus you’ll save money because you are more likely to remember all of your expenses that need to be deducted.


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