Hi everyone!
I am new to dancing. In the past, I had some experience web dancing independently (just promoting myself, not through a company) unfortunately at the time, I wasn't very smart about it and didn't know that paypal didn't allow sexual services/items so my account was frozen, and I stopped.
I'm interested in doing this again, but more thought out, and I do plan to do this independently (promoting myself though social networking, chat rooms, etc) so I would essentially have my own business.
My first concern is filing taxes. I don't mind doing my taxes, but I am worried because my future career of choice would not look at a stripping history favorably if an employer did a background check. I realize that I need to write down the nature of the work when doing my tax forms. (Are there other regional things to keep in mind when starting a home business?) Any way to get around this coming up to employers in the future? I was thinking that I could start a photography business (which I was planning to do anyway), it would be a really really small side gig but could I just register this business instead and claim that my income comes from that? I would make a website for it and everything. Would the IRS look into it in detail/would it look suspicious? I realize that I wouldn't be able to write stripper items off the taxes, which is fine by me if this would work.
By the way, I don't plan on making more than $10,000 during the first year. I'm a student and I've been doing grants/loans to pay for school. I have also considered not filing my taxes (yes, naughty me) because I could just say that my living expenses are paid for by the school, and I would be withdrawing money from the bank in small increments and not buying anything big or expensive.
What are my options?
Next question...does anybody know of a legit paypal alternative? I need something that will be easy for clients to use and isn't a scam or anything. I've heard of the website "paypal alternative" but I'm not sure if it's legit or not. I wouldn't mind paying a small monthly fee for a service.
Also, since I'm a student and also considered a dependent (bc I'm under 24, although my family doesn't support me whatsoever) is it possible that when I do my financial aid that my tax report could be seen by my family in any way...I'm guessing not but I want to make sure there aren't any weird loopholes.
And one more question. What is the average that somebody pays for a web cam stripper per minute? What would be a cheap, but still reasonable amount? Anyone else have experience doing this independently?
Thanks for your time!
**(by the way, in addition to the taxes, I'm doing everything else in my power to keep myself at least somewhat anonymous. wig, color contacts, makeup, separate computer/ip address, etc. etc. Anybody know of a way to block out certain area codes from contacting me as well/seeing others area codes? thanks)



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