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Walt Eddy

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in Ogden, Utah, The United States

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Literature & Fiction, Business & Investing, Humor

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Wallace Stegner, Yann Martel, Harper Lee, Bill Bryson, Lynne Truss

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Walt grew up in the Great Basin in the United States of America. He graduated from Weber State University in Ogden, Utah, with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in German. He also has many credit hours from various universities in accounting and business. He has lived in Germany, Illinois, California, Idaho, Utah, and Wyoming.

He belongs to The League of Utah Writers.

For Walt and for everybody else in his homeland, tax season is always approaching. It’s a certainty of life, as Benjamin Franklin put it. Franklin “married” the terms death and taxes. We can’t escape either one.

For writers, like everybody else, accounting for income taxes comes up annually, without fail. Death . . . well, it just comes up once per lifetime, thank goodness. So whether Walt grew up in the Great Basin in the United States of America. He graduated from Weber State University in Ogden, Utah, with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in German. He also has many credit hours from various universities in accounting and business. He has lived in Germany, Illinois, California, Idaho, Utah, and Wyoming.

He belongs to The League of Utah Writers.

For Walt and for everybody else in his homeland, tax season is always approaching. It’s a certainty of life, as Benjamin Franklin put it. Franklin “married” the terms death and taxes. We can’t escape either one.

For writers, like everybody else, accounting for income taxes comes up annually, without fail. Death . . . well, it just comes up once per lifetime, thank goodness. So whether or not you made money writing last year, you probably paid taxes. As writers who desire to derive income from writing, it becomes necessary to get the most one can out of writing situations relative to taxation. It requires planning and knowledge. Walt decided he could help writers do just that. After all, he worked as Santa Claus for the IRS.

No, really. For twenty-six years, Walt, as an Appeals Officer for IRS, considered the appeals of disgruntled taxpayers--both individuals and businesses, often providing them relief from the exactions of ornery revenue agents, gung-ho auditors, and ruthless collectors. Within the IRS bureaucracy, such enforcement folks (the agents, auditors, and collectors) called Walt and his ilk Santa Clause. Not as a compliment.

So Walt knows what he’s talking about relative to taxation. Additionally, Walt is a retired Enrolled Agent who was authorized to represent taxpayers before the IRS.

Walt can provide a workshop tailored to the needs of those contemplating getting into or just entering the writing trade or business. He can help such individuals see how taxation can enhance their writing careers and decide what benefits writers are entitled to under the tax laws. He can help:

• Learn basic principles of taxation pertaining to businesses.
• Figure out how to take advantage of writing losses.
• Find out if your writing activity qualifies as a trade or business.
• Make certain you know what it takes to convince the taxman that you engage in writing for profit.
• Know about the business expense umbrella.
• Know what tax forms you need to file and how to fill them out
• And much, much more.

Walt wrote Making Expression Less Taxing, a Freelancers Tax Resource, which is available at Amazon as a trade paperback or as a Kindle eBook. ...more

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