To all the designers here...

XnMeX - 7-10-2006 at 11:22 AM

Are you registered as a business? Do you HAVE TO register as a business to be "legal"? I have heard there is some leway with being a "freelance designer". I just want to know what I would need to do to be legal basically (if anyone has went thru it) so I can start advertising for real in publications and not just messageboards.

Anyone?

XHonusWagnerX - 7-10-2006 at 11:30 AM

Email Jeremy. Hes does designs & webwork and he does it legal and pays taxes and all that stuff. He should be able to answer anything you wanna know. I can give you his phone # if you rather call so you can actually ask him stuff.

XHonusWagnerX - 7-10-2006 at 11:31 AM

Check your U2Us

XnMeX - 7-10-2006 at 12:11 PM

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Originally posted by XHonusWagnerX
Check your U2Us

I checked them before checking this, so disregaurd the U2U I sent back. lol

Lucabrasi - 7-11-2006 at 01:30 AM

as far as being legit, i think you need to regester your tradename. I did. It only cost me $40. That was the easy part. Writting a business plan/marketing plan kind of sucks.

BDx13 - 7-13-2006 at 03:51 PM

you can do that stuff, but you don't have to. all depends on how you want to market yourself and what your state laws require.

companies hire me by my personal name (no business name), pay my fee (witholding no taxes), i pay estimated quarterly taxes, then at the end of the year, i just tally up what i brought in and what i spent, and send off the tax forms to uncle sam.

XnMeX - 7-13-2006 at 04:27 PM

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Originally posted by BD
you can do that stuff, but you don't have to. all depends on how you want to market yourself and what your state laws require.

companies hire me by my personal name (no business name), pay my fee (witholding no taxes), i pay estimated quarterly taxes, then at the end of the year, i just tally up what i brought in and what i spent, and send off the tax forms to uncle sam.

Yeah, someone else I talked to (a guy me and Honus know) and he basically does the same thing.

Thanks for the input from all of you. I am clueless with the business end.