How to Use self-employment in a Sentence
self-employment
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For them, the challenges of self-employment beat the constant threat of layoffs.
—Jennifer Wilson, The New Yorker, 16 Dec. 2024
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TaxAct’s treatment of self-employment income and expenses is much like the rest of the site.
—PCMAG, 27 Nov. 2024
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The site could handle two elements of the self-employment Q&A much better.
—PCMAG, 4 Feb. 2025
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Italy’s visa options include a long or short-term self-employment visa, or lavorno autonomo, and a start-up visa.
—Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 15 Jan. 2024
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For Gen Z, self-employment is also about having more control over their lives.
—Bynick Rockel, Fortune, 1 Mar. 2024
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One-third of Gen Z believes that the best way to wealth is self-employment, according to a December survey.
—Irina Ivanova, Fortune, 24 Jan. 2024
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Enter the total from your 1099-Ks in the income section, along with any other self-employment or business income.
—Brian Sloan, CNBC, 30 Jan. 2025
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Others might be contract or self-employment situations, as is often the case with hair stylists.
—Amy Lindgren, Twin Cities, 29 Mar. 2025
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There are entrepreneur or startup visas, self-employment visas, student visas, and so on.
—Kathleen Peddicord, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2024
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This shift alone saved them tens of thousands annually in self-employment taxes.
—Gary Galstyan, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2025
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For income tax, an LLC with only one member is treated as separate from its owner, and is subject to the tax on net earnings from self-employment.
—Molly Higgins, WIRED, 14 Jan. 2025
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The fee is further reduced when stylist agency fees and self-employment taxes are taken into account.
—K.j. Yossman, Variety, 7 Aug. 2023
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Identify your self-employment goals when considering a move What might self-employment look like for you?
—Nerdwallet, The Mercury News, 27 May 2024
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After answering a series of basic questions about your business or gig work, Cash App Taxes wants to know about your self-employment income.
—PCMAG, 5 Feb. 2024
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The vast majority of companies are started in the home, by people following their dreams of self-employment and seeking control of their own destinies.
—Andy Unanue, Fortune, 29 May 2023
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The earnings test includes wages and self-employment income, but doesn’t include withdrawals from retirement accounts.
—Liz Weston, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Mar. 2025
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There’s been a particular acceleration in the gig economy—self-employment increased about 20 percent in the first two years of the pandemic.
—Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 1 May 2023
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The gig economy, as well as opportunities for self-employment that can be used as an entrepreneurial tool, is also giving Gen Z-ers a way out from the doldrums of work routines.
—Michèle Lamont, WIRED, 8 Jan. 2024
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For those with good careers and good benefits, retirement may well mean a time to try an encore career, experiment with self-employment, find part-time work, or stick with a current employer for a few more years.
—Chris Farrell, Fortune Well, 6 Apr. 2023
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This income could come from traditional employment, such as a part-time job, or from self-employment activities such as babysitting or lawn mowing.
—Winnie Sun, CNBC, 29 Sep. 2024
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This income could come from traditional employment, such as a part-time job, or from self-employment activities, such as babysitting or lawn mowing.
—Winnie Sun, CNBC, 13 Oct. 2024
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However, the success of creating or replacing an income and the freedom that self-employment can bring often leads to complacency.
—Peter Boolkah, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2023
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For example, the requirements for proof of self-employment didn’t come until later in the program, after many had already collected benefits.
—David Lightman, Sacramento Bee, 18 Apr. 2024
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There are, of course, other social media apps that have helped influencers and content creators launch themselves into self-employment, but both Larson and Lopez note that none of the payout models seem to be as lucrative as TikTok’s.
—Sara Belcher, People.com, 10 Jan. 2025
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Estimated tax is used to pay income tax plus self-employment tax and alternative minimum tax.
—Medora Lee, USA TODAY, 6 June 2023
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That is, women opting for self-employment to escape the un-meetable demands of managing a career, childrearing, and household management.
—Gemma Allen, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2024
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Past studies have pointed to Gen Z being more in favor of self-employment as they’re met with the realities of an increasingly expensive economy.
—Prarthana Prakash, Fortune Europe, 28 Feb. 2024
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It’s also well documented that immigrants have higher rates of self-employment, whether that means working as an Uber driver, pushing a street food cart or launching an ambitious tech business.
—Don Lee, Los Angeles Times, 31 July 2024
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The deduction is limited to the individual’s net earnings from self-employment.
—Margie Zable Fisher, Fortune Well, 24 Aug. 2023
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Here entrepreneurship looks like another name for self-employment, and self-employment a euphemism for unemployment.
—Hari Kumar Atul Loke, New York Times, 28 June 2023
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