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    Default Re: What did you put for your occupation on your taxes?

    I always classified myself as an entertainer.

    Yes you could potentially establish an LLC or for that matter a sole proprietor business and lump all the different facets of your entertainment related business income together under it .... PROVIDED that none of this income stems from work where you are treated as an employee ( i.e. receiving a paycheck with taxes withheld ) !!! Business income and employee 'wages' ( along with employee tip earnings) are two separate and distinct entities that must be reported in separate places on a tax return.

    In my own case I operated a single LLC and included under it my dancing income, feature fees, acting / modeling fees, webcam income etc. However, each needs to be listed as a separate line item. Also, if the income originates from different states, these need to be subtotalled so that appropriate state tax returns ( and state tax credit claims for taxes paid to a different jurisdiction ) can be filed.

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    1099's are fine for LLC's since they are used to report BUSINESS income ( as opposed to W2 which are used to report employee wages ).

    As to choosing a name for an LLC I don't think that the chosen name matters much ( other than it must be unique in the state where your LLC is registered). As long as your LLC is created to do business for 'any lawful purpose' then from a technical standpoint you can place business income from many sources under the same LLC 'umbrella'.

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    i list myself as an entertainer

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    Waitress here!

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    Default Re: What did you put for your occupation on your taxes?

    I've been leaning towards "performer", because there are so many different types of performers, I think it would be a little less synonymous with "stripper".
    Exotic dancing is like any other job.
    If you work in an office, you wear dress shoes and a suit.
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    If you work in a strip club, you wear 7" stilettos and lycra g-strings.

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    Default Re: What did you put for your occupation on your taxes?

    Cocktail waitress also works...

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    i love this.


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    Default Re: What did you put for your occupation on your taxes?

    the ficticious name statement is better known as a DBA ( Doing Business As ). These are easy to file, and would indeed allow a single LLC to operate under several different 'working' business names.

    While the operating costs of establishing and maintaining an LLC are comparatively low, they are certainly not zero. Thus from a financial standpoint, registering and operating multiple LLC's is going to add significant costs. The only real advantage of multiple LLC's is liability limitation i.e. a successful customer lawsuit against one LLC in a multiple LLC scenario could only access the assets of that particular LLC. However, under an umbrella LLC ( with or without multiple DBA's ), a successful customer lawsuit against the LLC or one DBA could access ALL of the assets under the LLC umbrella. But in either case, 'personal' assets would be untouchable ( which is not true where a sole proprietor non-incorporated business is concerned ).

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    Default Re: What did you put for your occupation on your taxes?

    i'm thinking of putting entertainer, but how would cocktail waitress work? has anyone ever had issues with putting down entertainer?

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    Default Re: What did you put for your occupation on your taxes?

    ^ I put down cocktail waitress, but that then restricts me on what I can claim for taxes (makeup, outfits, etc). I try to look as legitimate as possible, so I don't drag in receipts for things I could probably get away with if I claimed as an entertainer/stripper.

    Then again, I'm also still claiming as a dependent, so I have different issues altogether.

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    Default Re: What did you put for your occupation on your taxes?

    I believe that the primary reason the government asks for this is because they put out all the salary statistics for different types of employment.

    In any case I usually listed myself as various things over the years: entertainer, performance artist, model plus whatever my day job at the time was. My reason though was more because my mother is disgustingly nosy (to the point of copying my house key and re-arranging furniture or showing the new wood floors to her co-workers), so I knew at some point she'd see/find the tax returns. It's all pretty pointless now though since everyone in my family knows that I dance and have known for years. I think after I started using those job descriptions though I just kept at it, especially since they encompassed so many things.
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    I use entertainer.
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    Default Re: What did you put for your occupation on your taxes?

    Would using entertainer look strange? I mean that sort of screams stripper but I'm not sure? I also want to be able to deduct makeup/outfits/hair that sort of thing, so not sure which ones restrict that other than waitress?

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    ^ Try model maybe?

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    ^good idea, anyone else put model and still can use the outfits/hair/makeup as deductions?

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    ^When I actually modeled I was able to.

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    ^^^YAY.

    This thread is super helpful. I love SW!!! I will definitely have to remember to use 'model' when I file my taxes next year.

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