XnMeX
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To all the designers here...
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?
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XHonusWagnerX
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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.
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XHonusWagnerX
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Check your U2Us
| Quote: | Originally posted by REV.PAULIE
HONUS-as much as i can't stand a great deal of what you really like (for my own reasons that i would never hold,nor impose,against you),YOU FUCKING
RULE!
YOU,HONUS,IS WHAT MAKES THE "EDGE" COOL.
YOUR FRIEND,
PAULIE |
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XnMeX
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| Quote: | Originally posted by XHonusWagnerX
Check your U2Us |
I checked them before checking this, so disregaurd the U2U I sent back. lol
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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.
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BDx13
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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.
If I fail math, there goes my chance at a good job and a happy life full of hard work.
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| Quote: | 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.
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