What would you be happy with?

[mariokluser]

I don’t rely on Fiverr when it comes to income. It happened by accident that I was able to build a business that allows me to make a living. It’s very funny actually.

However, it makes some money to play around with. I have to reject a lot of buyers lately because they don’t read gig descriptions and start wasting my time with useless attempts to discuss obvious stuff. Sometimes I get tired so tired of it that I consider leaving Fiverr. But I don’t.

[mariokluser]

The good thing is that the taxman doesn’t understand everything. They can be overwhelmed from time to time.

But I remember 15 years ago when they invited me to their office in order to explain something within my administration. We disagreed on everything, but the next day I had their bill in my mail box and had to pay them €3.000,-

[writer99025]

Thing is I have no real expenses. The only family I have is my mother, and she is financially independent. So taxes are the only real expense I have. I do everything that is legally possible to minimize my taxes such as investing in tax free bonds, etc. but obviously taxes cannot be avoided. Paying tax is not a matter of choice. So I celebrate little things like getting a certificate from the government. I’m just being positive instead of negative 🙂

[mariokluser]

I’m very positive about avoiding taxes. In fact during the last three years I didn’t pay a dime on taxes. Legally, because the amount of deductions exceeded the taxes owed.
It’s not that I’m actively looking for the latest tricks a.s.o. but I just hate our government. I see them as my enemy. Most people here do.
But sometimes you have to dance with the enemy, so when a tax inspector comes, I make him coffee 😉

[homeestates]

It feels like it’s getting tougher to find good quality buyers on fiverr but those I do work with understand that quality costs and I end up writing less for more money. When sellers can bid to be top of the searches next year that might all change again, though.

[spetto]

I never intended for Fiverr to be a main income source for me. However, I’ve been fortunate to have received steady orders over the last few months. At the end of the day I’m content with where I am. However, it’d be great to continue meeting new clients. I didn’t expect I’d be here when I made my first sale a year ago.

[miiila]

Hm. That´s all I can really say, kinda speechless. Thanks for the info!

[miiila]

I worked with a tax advisor for someone else once for a while, and one day he brought me papers and there was one of the official German income tax forms with them…well, it looked exactly like the official form, multipages and all, as long as you didn´t read, but when you started to read, it was a fake form, ‘income tax avoidance form’, just for fun of course, but it was really very funny indeed. But I fear it wouldn´t be any more legal to hand one like that in where you are than here. A legal option might be get as big as Amazon and then pay respectively not pay your taxes in Luxembourg or something…

[miiila]

That´s kind of sad, isn´t it, the government as the enemy, you only should expect that in countries that obviously and very visibly are the people’s enemy. And I´m pretty sure it´s not only like that in your country and with your government.

I tried with coffee, but the last government person who was entitled to cross my doorstep was so…correct he didn´t even accept a glass of water. He was nice though, the real people usually are, the problem are those constructs, ‘the tax office’, ‘the government’…

[Guest designer_crowd]

I will be happy making atleast $1000 a month.