On February 5th and 6th we held a Make Learn Grow Taxes Workshop series with the Knoxville Entrepreneur Center. These workshops were led by industry experts, Teresa Sylvia, CPA of Tennessee Small Business Development Center, and Nikki Elliott, CPA of Elliott Advisory Group.
The slides from Teresa’s workshop can be found HERE. During this session Teresa walked us through filing a schedule C form. Schedule C forms are how you report income or loss from a business you operated or a profession you practiced as a sole proprietor. You can download that form HERE and follow along in the slides for more information on how to file that form.
Teresa also shared information about the Tennessee Small Business Development Center (located above KEC) and all of the resources and assistance they provide for entrepreneurs. They provide business plan review, marketing advice, technology planning and more! The full list is on the second slide of her presentation.
In our second day of workshops, the emphasis was on tracking your expenses. If you are not tracking your expenses you are missing deductions! Nikki dove deep into self-employed deductions, including home office benefits and unique strategies like paying your child to work. You can find the slides she used for her presentation on exemptions HERE. She also shared a template for tracking your expenses that you can download HERE.
In the second workshop, Nikki covered federal income tax and working through a 1040 form. She covered different tax brackets and different types of taxes we might have to pay. You can find the second session’s slides HERE.
Nikki will be working with Let Her Speak for their Let Her Invest series covering taxes. All women entrepreneurs are welcome to attend the next session on February 20th at 5:30.
Download Form 1040 (U.S. Individual Income Tax Return) HERE.
Download Section 1 (Additional Income and Adjustments to Income) HERE.
The IRS provides instructions to file a Section C on their website along with additional information and tips.
If you have any questions about our tax series or how to get in touch with tax experts in our community reach out to themakercity@gmail.com.
You can find information about upcoming events for Makers at our website and a full list of the Knoxville Entrepreneur Center’s monthly events here.
Make Learn Grow is a series of in-person multiple hour workshops designed to provide makers with business education to grow their small businesses. Make Learn Grow workshops cost $10 and are open for anyone to attend.