Freelancer's Union Blogs about Juliette

Check it out! As a member if the Freelancer's Union, I was featured as Freelancer of the Week on their fabulous blog.

http://www.freelancersunion.org/blog/

While we are on the subject, if you are a freelancer you should check out this organization. They offer affordable healthcare insurance(!!!!!!) and they lobby for freelancer's rights. The more members we have, the stronger our voices. Please sign up and get involved. Becoming a member is free!

One big topic on the union's political agenda is to eliminate the NYC unincorporated business tax. As if we don't pay enough taxes! Haven't they heard of Self-Employment tax? It is hard enough to maintain working capital for our businesses without this financial drain. I would think it would be more beneficial to the local economy to funnel this money into hiring more employees or to pay other freelancer's with whom we work on team projects (like my webmaster) or paying our current employees more. Thus we will contribute to workers in the local community and pay tax via payroll tax, etc. The more working people there are and the more money they make, the more they will funnel back into our local NYC economy. Hopefully the government will soon figure this out and give us hard working self-employed a break for the benefit of NYC.

Posted By: Juliette Aiyana, L.Ac.
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