Taxes for humans:

Simplify Your Taxes and change the world
when You’re Self-employed

It's here!

My book is ready for pre-order.

It ships in November, in time for holiday gifts for all your freelance friends and family.

Your pre-order determines the success of this book, and I am so grateful to you.

Easy-to-understand guide to taxes for artists, freelancers, and all self-employed individuals

Equal parts empathetic and practical, Taxes for Humans is a handbook for tackling the tax-season-scaries, written specifically for people who are self-employed.

- Wiley

PRACTICAL, ENTERTAINING, AND VITAL

This book has all the necessary info for DIY'ing your taxes, and reading it helped me to file my self-employment taxes for the first time, with zero panic attacks.

- Jackie Hanson, Beta Reader

Why Taxes for humans?

  • This is the clearest, easiest, most empathetic, funniest tax book you've ever read. I had 5 beta readers test it, to make sure it works for you.

    • There's a dominatrix in it.

    • It's uplifting and encouraging.

    • It gives you systems.

    • It illuminates things you never realized you didn't know.

    • It has an "oh sh*t" section, if you're in a jamit's a reference, and built to last for years.

    • It teaches you how to do your taxes(and how to make them easier, forever)

  • This book is for you if you:

    • Want to DIY your taxes

    • Want to understand your freelance taxes, do things better, and get systems that keep you organized

    • Had a tax whammy (like tax debt, an audit, or divorce fallout) and are looking to get out of it

    • Want to get more out of an accountant relationship or communicate your needs to them better

    • Want to feel seen and valued for the work you care about

    • Care about making the world/your own life/democracy better – and holding your representatives accountable.

  • This book is about your federal income taxes. I've distilled the most important issues that a self-employed person needs to know to make this book feel useful and readable. I'm skipping the laundry-list of hyper-specific tax situations (for the record, that laundry list does exist, and it's called the Internal Revenue Code) – I can't cover every conceivable tax situation. Do you want to read 7,000 pages of technical detail? Me neither.

    If you're looking for detailed tax info on real estate, investing, your spouse's income, agriculture rules, every state's income tax rules, sales tax, or local business franchise taxes, I'm sorry.

    I can't get to everything. But I will give you essential tools you need to understand how to do things yourself and when you should find an accountant to help you. I'll even help you get more out of your accountant by knowing what to look for and ask for.

    This book will also give you the foundation to do more than taxes; it will help you set up the systems to make your taxes smooth (and legally compliant) every year, find extra money each year through tax planning, and build savings with tax-smart accounts.

  • BUY 3 AND COME TO A FREE TAX WORKSHOP

    Buy 3 copies (they're tax-deductible for your business), and you can come to a free tax workshop with me.

    (Books will ship before the holidays, so this can be your gift to all your self-employed friends and family. Also shipping is free when you buy 3)

    The Workshop options:

    1. Taxes for Creative Freelancers/Solopreneurs
    My classic workshop, covering self-employment tax, estimated quarterly taxes and the relevant part of your tax return, the Schedule C. Empowering, and meets you where you are, even if you don't know the first thing about taxes.

    -or-

    2. How to Review Your Tax Return
    You just did your taxes - how do you use your tax return as the income/tax answer key that it is? How do all the parts fit together (like your spouse's income? And the combo of your business plus your day job?), and how do you make next year better, using this year's taxes as a roadmap?


    The DETAILS: email a copy of your receipt(s) (showing 3 purchased copies) to hello@sunlighttax.com, or just hit reply, and which workshop you prefer. We'll take it from there.

Taxes for Humans is an essential read
for all freelancers, creatives, and
self-employed people seeking to understand, take control of, and reduce stress surrounding their tax.

The Author

I’m Hannah Cole, a longtime professional artist, and a tax expert, and the founder of Sunlight Tax. When I started my career as an artist, I found it impossible to get the tax and financial information I needed to set up my business right (and I had some truly horrifying experiences along the way).

I founded a company, Sunlight Tax, whose mission is to serve creative people, just like you, who are self-employed, with relevant tax and financial education, so you can bring your unique vision to the world.

I’ve supported thousands of creative people with accessible tax and business setup skills through my program, Money Bootcamp.