Sex Worker's & Income Taxes

Sex workers learn to stay on the right side of the IRS:

But how to list her various revenue streams? Ms. Patterson is self-employed — getting her own private clients through word of mouth — but also receives regular payment when booking a foot massage session through her booking agency, the Foot Worship Palace, a Manhattan company that employs fetish models. On top of that, she is an English tutor for immigrants.

A screener told her that she could get free help from one of several tax preparation centers in the city and introduced her to representatives from Citizens for N.Y.C., which, using a grant from the Robin Hood Foundation, finances 40 local advocacy groups, including Prostitutes of New York, to offer tax help to marginalized workers who might not otherwise file, including street vendors, dishwashers and illegal immigrants who work at hotel, restaurant and cleaning jobs.

An Old Profession That's New to Doing Taxes