Replying to Coleen D3 thanks.
So if a person runs a business called , say. "Jack of all trades,' there is no such category.
I do blend all ways I make money under one heading. My raw is not inventory. I sell much as 'art' on the table with jewelry as displays. Some might be raw material for other artists. Some I find, some I buy, some I use in my own art, some I pass on, some is thrown away. Gardening= some wood I grow is for art, most flowers are to decorate my business property. The compost is used to clean some raw materials used in my art that I find. At farmers markets I sell my art, some garden items are in pots I made. I write about a lifestyle that includes art, raw material gathering, with 'how to books' sold on my art table. Video is 'how to' for the website helping to sell my art like blank knife blades, how to put a handle in it, using wood I supply for the greenhouse business, and provenance proving I do as I say I do and credibility for my work is not done in China. Here I am in my shop, in my boat getting materials for my art.
There is no 'check all that apply' option is there? When my total self employment income is hypothetically $500 a year?
I used to have an accountant help me, been in biz for 50 years. he was good. In his past, an accountant for the Rolling Stones band. I trust his opinion, however laws have changed and he can no longer help others do their taxes on the side. It requires a different level license. Now he prefers not to keep up on. it I'd pay him in the past, and for him it was easy. More complicated as time goes by for me. Oh well. Thanks for. your input. Before I spend hundreds of hours filing on a dozen business to make maybe $500 profit, I'd quit. Not interested in IRS problems for $500. Just curious what others might do in the same situation. I often wonder for example if 'running a garage sale' is the name of a business category to do reams of paperwork on. I see a lot of people running garage sales, but do not see it listed under a list of legal businesses. I feel like my business is like to old dog and pony show of yesteryears, the guy who has something for everyone, who shows up in small communities and sells whatever it is you need. Garden seeds, plows, booze, women, hammers, his horse. Sees a need and fills it. A man of magic. There is no one else like that? That seems strange to me.
