The Silver Lining If You’ve Had a Tough Financial Year — Roth Conversions
Did you have a terrible year financially? That painful low-income year might at least have a silver lining. If you had a bad year, your marginal tax rate will be lower than usual, so now might be a good time for a Roth conversion.
Year-End 2025 — Cut Your Tax Bill By Maximizing Your Contributions
Max out the contributions to your retirement accounts before year's end. Now is the time to get your QuickBooks in order and talk to your accountant before the end of the year. Don’t wait.
The freelancer investment trinity — i401(k), HSA, and Backdoor Roth IRA.
What’s in the 2025 Big Beautiful Bill for Freelancers and Self-Employed?
We look at what’s in the 2025 Big Beautiful Bill for Freelancers and Self-Employed.
2025 and Your Tax Rate — it’s not one rate
It’s often misunderstood how the states and feds tax us. A misconception is that once someone hits a certain income, all of their hard-earned money gets taxed at a higher rate. This is not the case.
The List: Tax-advantaged accounts — tax saving, wealth multipliers.
More in our series of ‘More for us, less for you IRS!’
Below is a list of the various tax-advantaged accounts we can have as freelancers. Learn the ways of the force, I mean accounts. As freelancers, investing is our ultimate side hustle.
My name is Chris Albert. I’m a freelance news magazine/documentary director of photography based in DC and I also run StudiowerksDC a commercial studio, also known as ‘the side hustle.’
Why the website? I happen to geek out on simple, sensible investing. Talking to friends and colleagues at work there was a real lack of investment and retirement knowledge. Why? Because no one teaches us. There did not seem to be an investment website dedicated to freelancers signal person businesses, so I made one.
We are going to get rich slow.