Friday, May 5, 2017

If I self-publish with Kindle, how will taxes work?

I know absolutely nothing about taxes, at all, so please bear with me…

Assuming I make decent sales and start getting royalties from self-published e-books on Kindle, how exactly are taxes going to work? Does it work like a regular employer, where a cut is automatically taken out for taxes and social security? Or is this something I have to calculate and set aside myself? If it's the latter, how would I go about paying that to the IRS, and on what schedule? What sort of records do I need to keep? What about tax returns?

Phew… I think that covers it right now.

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