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TAX MATTERS
Medium Writers, You Might Want To Double-Check Your 1099s
This isn’t instilling a lot of confidence.
If you’re not a Medium writer, please feel free to keep scrolling or go back to doing whatever it is that people do who aren’t tethered to a computer wracking their brains for killer story titles to post on a platform nobody’s ever heard of for pennies a day.
Listen, I would love, love to have made as much on Medium last year as Medium is trying to tell me I made.
Unfortunately, I did not. (*sad trombone noise*)
Ergo, I’m not going to fork over taxes to the IRS for income I didn’t actually receive.
But I’m afraid some people are going to do exactly that.
Honestly, if the number was only off by a few hundred dollars, I can totally see myself blithely accepting the figure and merrily filing my taxes, all concerns about accuracy thrown in the trash along with all of my receipts (I did not just say that).
I’m not a numbers person, and I’m not super OCD about my taxes. Electrical appliances — yes. It takes me five minutes to get out of my house because I have to check that everything’s turned off three times.
