If The Government Really Wants to Help College Students…

Originally posted on Being An Only Elgon:

As I am collecting the documents and such in anticipation of the annual filing of a tax return, I was reminded that some of income requires a 1099, since I made over $500 as an author and publicist. The reason that struck me as odd was not that I would owe taxes, but that the basement amount one can earn without filing taxes has not changed since I was a kid. years ago when I worked for my dad on his farm and he paid me a whole dollar an hour – same as he paid any of his hired hands – I asked him if I had to file income tax. He told me no, that I didn’t need to file since I only earned about $40 a week before overtime whenever it was hay bailing season in the summer. At no time, as a kid, did I ever…

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