I made about $1500 last year dancing, 'cuz I started in late October, worked about two shifts a week in a tiny club, and hurt my foot in early December. I really don't want to have to go to all the trouble to file a 1040 for that. I heard in some other threads here that dancers do sometimes fudge and file simpler tax forms. How does one go about reporting income if doing so? How do you list it, when you haven't got a paper trail whatsoever?
I hope that's the right question about it -- I don't know how this stuff works, because I've never done my taxes before. But I'm dancing part-time in a dive bar and mainly living off student loans. I'm not exactly partying away thousands of dollars here. My idea of going out on the town is to buy a couple of drinks and spend the night writing short stories in a diner bar, because I'm just like that. When I heal up enough to return to dancing more than one day a week, I'm sure I'll make enough money to have something to write home about. Right now, though, it's on the level of a hobby that brings in some tertiary income.



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