IRS does not forgive taxes owed by eBay, Amazon Sellers "hobby"
QUESTION: I am a Part Time Hobby-seller of used books on Amazon and eBay. I have to pay taxes on sales that I had last year?
ANSWER: Yes, you are required to pay federal taxes on income tax and self-employment net income from the sale of used books online, if they are sold on Amazon, eBay, Half.com, ABE, Alibris, or any other place .
Since you do not have an employer to report your income and libraryretaining a portion of the taxes, you must notify the IRS on you. It makes no difference who you consider your library a "hobby". If you make a profit, the IRS considers a business, and wants his cut.
I do not think it will be incorporating your business, you must declare your income bookstore as a "sole proprietorship" in the declaration form long, the IRS Form 1040, Schedule C "business profits".
You can report yourSelf-employed income by using the Personal Edition of TurboTax or TaxCut software. These programs can save you time, because they give the instructions in plain language instead of jargon confused IRS instruction manuals.
If you made a profit in 2005 of the library, you also need some income taxes to the state, so I also recommend that you also use your version of TurboTax or TaxCut is to understand your tax obligations of the State.
To completeyour tax return, you will need to take account of all transactions involving your book of business. If you have not already done so, keep all receipts and records, and put your expenses into categories such as "liberation", "shipping supplies", "books" and so on. This is the information go to your C program
The next year, do not wait so long to get your things in order. With Self-employment income, you should estimate your tax liability duringyear and make quarterly payments on your profits, subject to the Form 1040-ES, April 15, June 15, September 15 and January 15 the following calendar year. Since they have not done in 2005, could be a penalty for late payment of taxes. If you're expecting a tax refund this year, could be smaller than previously thought.
For next year, I suggest you have a separate bank account to keep track of expenses and income from your library. If your bankallows you to download your transactions into Quicken or other personal finance program, you can automatically classify the expenditure as "post", etc, in Quicken. And next year, you can transfer the same data into your tax-prep software. This will greatly reduce your accounting tasks next year, and also provide a practical tool for examining the performance of your business book.