Comments for Artist Adventurer!

Comment on “I’m Here Of My Own Recognizance, Officer!” by Stephanie

Stephanie — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 21:19:54 +0000

Wait, they make gloveboxes big enough for guns AND hostages now? I’ll have to move my guns, I guess. :::snort:::

Comment on Random Barfly With Scissors by XTC

XTC — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 23:13:35 +0000

It’s adorable!

Comment on Random Barfly With Scissors by Sheila

Sheila — Fri, 27 May 2011 22:50:14 +0000

Great story! I actually was less worried about the “random haircut” than “going back to his place”. I almost let them shave my hair into a mohawk at Planet Earth in Knoxville at a GG Allen show. I would have gone through with it, but someone took off with the “bald clippers” and I had to get home fast since I took off with my brother and skipped school:)

Comment on Random Barfly With Scissors by Stephanie

Stephanie — Fri, 27 May 2011 16:33:24 +0000

I’m so used to seeing you with long hair that this is quite the shock! But it’s adorable, Anna.

Also, you’re very brave. Aint’ now way in HELL any random guy with scissors is getting near my hair.

You truly are an adventurer!

Comment on Random Barfly With Scissors by Michael Smuck

Michael Smuck — Fri, 27 May 2011 14:00:54 +0000

Wow, what a crazy story! You actually let some random guy cut off your long hair? BTW it looks fabulous!!!

Comment on Travel Well! Planned Vehicle Non-Operation Tips . . . by Tom

Tom — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 09:02:57 +0000

I live in California too and I hadn’t even thought of this until I read this post! Thanks so much for the awesome advice! I’m traveling after getting laid off, so every dollar like this def counts!

Comment on Beware Creative People! Los Angeles Small Business Tax Info. by Jason

Jason — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 14:19:22 +0000

Hello,

I have a small business that sells advertising. It is classified as a Single Member LLC.

My customers pay me by check every month and I deposit these funds into a Bank Account set up with TIN # of Business.

My question is this: At the end of the year do these customers send me and the IRS a 1099 (I am not a contractor). I am trying to find out what is sent to the IRS? I just want to know when I am doing my taxes if I need to match up all 1099 (if sent to me) for my income? Or do I just keep track of my income through QuickBooks and report this? I just wanted to make sure they match if the IRS is getting something from customers. If they are not getting anything, how do they know what my income is?

Just trying to understand.

Thanks in advance for the help.

Comment on Beware Creative People! Los Angeles Small Business Tax Info. by rick

rick — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 15:35:07 +0000

Anna, Thanks for the information.

Did you happen to find out how many years it is necessary to go back for past taxes?

Also, was interest applied and at what rate?

I’ve seen the application which list prior years going back 8 years. This seems far to many back years to be actually “required”. Any info regarding this?

Comment on Beware Creative People! Los Angeles Small Business Tax Info. by tony

tony — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 21:48:38 +0000

thanks anna! all the kids in my office (architecture) are all 1099s so we all got them. this info really helps. I’m gonna see if the boss will split this with us at least….

Comment on Beware Creative People! Los Angeles Small Business Tax Info. by shocked

shocked — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 19:27:32 +0000

wow. thanks for posting.

This whole scenario is incredible and it makes me even happier I left that sick joke of a city. I haven’t lived in LA for years, and now they’ve sent me the letter saying I owe money for 2005-2007. I didn’t even make money in 2005 (like, literally didn’t get a single client for my freelance copywriting that year; all of the work I found was through temp agencies and I certainly did pay my LA taxes for those things) but they’re saying even if I show them I didn’t make any money, I at least owe 103 per year, the minimum amount due, which I would have been exempt from if I’d known I needed to apply to be exempt from it. (the fact that you have to go get a special license to be exempt if you don’t make enough money to actually pay the taxes suggests to me that the law was set up specifically to try to gouge poor people where possible…)

This was a side thing I did just every so often to make a few dollars while I worked my regular jobs in hell-A, and my income for those three years was maybe a few hundred bucks. In 2005 when I set up my website and spent money to try to get started, I thought it would be a potential career. It wasn’t, I moved on to a real job but left open the possibility of doing work on the side, and now the dying city is just grasping at straws. How is it that here in 2009 they can figure out how to let me know about my “obligations” to them as a “small business”, but they couldn’t back then?