Tax teacher for the self-employed
I’m Mereana. I teach tax basics to people who work for themselves, and I sell record sheets, planners, a binder and two video courses.
YouTube
A short list of what to gather, check and put in one folder before the year closes.
A simple way to put a share of every payment into a separate pot.
12 min
What counts, what does not and how to keep a plain record of it.
A small log in the car, and the three things every entry needs.
A weekly ten minutes, a folder and a phone photo that keeps the paper in order.
The usual costs of working for yourself, and how to tell if one belongs.
Online course
Video course · 8 lessons
Eight lessons that follow one year of self-employment, from your first payment to the final form, in plain words.
Downloads, a course and merch
Downloads arrive by email. Merch is printed to order and shipped by Printful.
Spreadsheet · 4 tabs
A simple spreadsheet with a tab for money in, a tab for money out and a monthly total for each.
Printable pages for listing receipts by week, with a column for what each one was for.
A one-page planner for deciding how much to set aside and tracking what is in the pot.
Printed to order
My designs, printed to order and shipped by Printful.
About
I kept the books for small businesses in a country town for fifteen years: a plumber, a florist, two cafes and a man who sold beehives. Nearly all of them were afraid of their own paperwork. They kept receipts in shoeboxes and put off the year end until it became a crisis. Most of what I did was sit down beside them and make it ordinary.
Now I teach the same thing to more people. I explain how self-employed tax works in plain words, with the pages and habits that make it easier. I am not a tax adviser and I do not give advice about your own case. The rules differ from place to place, so check them where you live. I film from my garden office on rainy days, and I write a letter every Friday about one small habit.
Newsletter
A short letter every Friday about tax for the self-employed: one habit, one common mistake and one thing to try this week.
