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You know, I get contacted almost every day by people who want me to review their products, services, themes, plugins, and books. I must say that I can not respond to every request, so I carefully pick what I think is a winning horse.

Your Blogging Business eBook that I am reviewing today is an excellent and very handy resource for bloggers and online business owners who want to safely file their Income Tax report.

How I Did My Income Tax Report Last Year

If you know me, then you know that I’ve moved to the States a couple of years ago. So, I’ve filed only one Income Tax report so far which was for 2010.

And, what I did was head to one of the H&R Block offices near to where I live, and I got them to do my Taxes for me. And, just FYI, I paid a total of $350 to get their assistance, which is a lot of money considering that I haven’t earned a single dollar that year!

But anyway, it’s OK, I had no experience with IRS Laws that time, even being an accountant couldn’t help me to understand the full picture.

How I will do it this Year

The H&R Block office called me a couple of weeks ago reminding me to visit them this year to start doing my Taxes for 2011. Things were complicated for me last year, but now I have more confidence that I can do my stuff on my own. So, I went ahead and bought the do it at home package, and I am going to play with it in the next few days.

However, last year I made quite good numbers, most of my income came from my design business and affiliate marketing.

By the way you can check a few of my income reports that I published before on the blog.

[box type=”info”]PayPal sent me a 1099-K of $56,990 gross amount of merchant card/third party network payments, and of course that’s not all, I had a few other 1099-K forms sent by some affiliate networks and one by Google AdSense, but PayPal is my biggest number.[/box]

This means I have some nice work to do this year to file my income Tax report!

Your Blogging Business

I got lucky when I was contacted by Nikki Hughes the author of “Your Blogging Business“, which is basically deal with Tax!  She sent me a copy of the eBook.

I was like Wow! I felt this eBook was written especially for me. Thanks Nikki 🙂

Your Blogging Business: Tax Talk & Tips eBook

Nikki is a Tax accountant and bookkeeper who turned into one of us 🙂 She has excellent writing skills in addition to being a comedian at heart. You are going to love and enjoy every section of her eBook.

Your Blogging Business: Tax Talk & Tips eBook is Nikkie’s first book, and I can easily say it’s a well written resource, easy to understand, absolutely no complicated stuff.

This is 87 pages of worthy information in 5 main sections that takes you through the preparing and filing process, simplified to help you understand the whole thing. Sections of the eBook are:

  1. The tax side of things
  2. The bookkeeping side of things
  3. The tax-prep side of things
  4. Behind the scenes
  5. Resources and Examples

Of course I won’t be sharing what’s in the eBook, but I can assure you it has all you need to know about filing your Tax income.

I highly recommend Nikki’s eBook to every blogger and online business owner. I hardly ever give a 5 star rating for any product, simply because nothing is perfect, but I appreciate the effort and time spent to make this eBook available for us bloggers and internet marketers.

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  1. Samuel says:
    Seems like a good book, Hesham. If I start getting into the taxes stuff, this is a great resource to look into.
  2. Betty Rhodes says:
    For $4.99? This seems a good deal. I'll take a look. Thank you for posting about this. By the way, as I went on your post, it was hard for me not ot look around as well. Consequently, amazement went all over me as I read through your stories of success. This blog is an inspiration. Thanks!
  3. Shalu Sharma says:
    Its amazing that blogging has become so popular to the extent of a business. Absolutely fascinating thing to do.
    • Jovie Onyema says:
      its actually a little comical when blogging is called a business. but what can we do? thats what it's become!
  4. brian says:
    Hmm - I really hope this will be an issue for me next year! I am new to blogging but I find your website a great resource. Keep the great articles coming and hopefully in the future I'll have to have a re-read of this post :)
  5. Danny says:
    Great review. I hate hiring someone to do work for me that I know nothing about. So it's a great idea to learn about it and for $4.99 there is no reason not to get this book. For the people who are not earning anything, better get this anyway as it's better to be prepared or you will have to waste a lot of time fixing it later.
  6. Allie says:
    Hesham, I was reading this and thinking "my husband and I have an accountant" so I don't need this book. But as I read I was thinking this would be a great reference to prepare my paperwork for the accountant. Now I just need to make a living...;-) ~Allie
    • Hesham Zebida says:
      Hey Allie, It's really cool to understand the business, even though not doing it by yourself! Maybe one day we will need that so we are prepared!
  7. Jamie Northrup says:
    I've been looking for a book like this, but for Canadian citizens, anyone know of one?
    • Hesham Zebida says:
      I really don't know Jamie, if I were you I would shout a tweet or something, maybe someone out there can help!
  8. AstroGremlin says:
    Hesham, the challenge of reporting substantial income from our blogging businesses is a problem a lot of us would like to have! :) I can speak from experience though, ANY business income complicates your tax picture when compared to that of a simple salary. A small investment in tax guidance early (e.g., in time to start documenting expenses) will pay for itself. Even the most expensive tax adviser doesn't have a time machine to send you back and get your business organized in advance.
    • Hesham Zebida says:
      Haha.. well.. yeah .. I love that kind of problems ;) Thanks for the good advice!
  9. Dan Keller says:
    Good timing on this review. I am sitting at my desk looking at a big stack of papers and trying to figure out what i should be doing in regards to taxes for my blogging income. This looks like an excellent resource and will be checking it out for sure.
  10. Kimberly Gauthier says:
    This is the 2nd positive review of this book and I'm excited to check it out. It's not available on Kindle yet, but as soon as it's released, I'll be happy to check it out. I work full time as an accountant and those skills have come in handy as I build a blogging business. Income taxes are intimidating and it's difficult to find information about blogging and taxes. Very excited that you liked the book.
  11. Nikki Hughes says:
    Hesham - Thank you for such an awesome review! I loved reading it! I am so happy you liked my book! I hope your readers enjoy it as well! Get to those taxes!!
    • Hesham Zebida says:
      No problem Nikki, and thanks for the excellent resource!
  12. Dave Lucas says:
    Great post, Hesham! And finally, an eBook of REAL VALUE to bloggers!
  13. neojit says:
    Hesham, Thanks for this great review about this wonderful Ebook. Tax paying is one of the primary duty of every major citizen. I think this book review can one of your best.
  14. Morgan says:
    Now this seems like an extremely valuable ebook! I will have to get into this very soon and I would have no idea where to start. Like you, I probably would have just gone to H&R Block. But doing it myself is way more satisfying (and cheaper!). So anyway, thanks for the review!