Don’t enjoy your side business too much. The IRS might consider it a hobby. Work is something you hate.

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Shh! Don’t tell clients: if you don’t carry out your activities in a businesslike manner and maintain complete books and records, you’re a hobby not a business!

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I might be wrong, but the way I read it I get the feeling an important perspective that’s considered is that of someone who makes a loss out of a hobby and claims a tax break…

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This, of course you have to claim income on a “hobby”, but if I can somehow say golf is a business for me I can write off my club dues?

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Only matters if it is a loss

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Suddenly it makes sense why people say don't turn your hobby into work.

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