Well, I did my own taxes and survived, thanks to Turbotax.
I've been keeping a running record of all my work in spread sheet and keeping a spread sheet and paper folder of deductions.
The adult entertainment business only accounted for a fraction of my earnings, as I have a 9 to 5 job, but I still ended up owing the IRS. No biggie, as I had money stashed away to pay them and my city. (The city I live in demands 2% of your income and will only credit you 0.5% on taxes paid to other cities.) It ended up being less than I had budgeted, so my savings account breathed a big sigh of relief. (I figured out taxes for 33% of what I'd earned and then a total of 2% for everything I'd earned at the city level.)
I reported everything I earned. I'm not interested in "playing the game" and trying to hide income from the IRS. No thanks! Paying taxes sucks, especially when it doesn't seem to be helping my local school district at all, but what are you going to do? Death and taxes, right.
I'm posting this partly as a morale booster for anyone considering doing taxes themselves and also to ask a question. Realistically, since I was a student in last tax season and my income wasn't very high, and since I didn't take out a whole lot of deductions (shoes, a hotel I had to pay for), how likely am I to be audited?
I live in fear of audit. My parents' business got audited a while ago and it was a nightmare. I know that if it happens, I've kept detailed records.



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