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Platform payouts, brand deals, affiliate income and gifted product treated correctly — and deductions documented so they survive a question rather than collapsing under one.
These come up in nearly every first conversation. Here is our honest answer to each.
AdSense, a network, three brands and an affiliate dashboard, some paid gross and some net of a fee you never saw. We reconcile the lot to what actually reached you, and we catch the double-counting that happens when a network reports gross and pays net.
A great deal of creator tax advice on social media is confidently wrong. The problem is not the deduction, it is the documentation behind it. We tell you which of your expenses will hold, which will not, and exactly what needs keeping to move one from the second list to the first.
There is a point at which staying a sole proprietor costs you real money, and a point before it where an entity is just paperwork and fees. We tell you which side of that line you are on this year, and we will tell you plainly when the answer is "not yet".
A list you can hand to your partner, your CFO or your spouse without translating it first.
We do not manage your money, negotiate your brand deals, or give advice on what to post. And we will not sign off a deduction we do not believe would survive a question — telling you what you want to hear is how creators end up owing back tax with interest.
What we put in writing
The tax planning fee is 40% of the tax actually saved, billed by ARPP LLC and paid out of money that was otherwise going to the Treasury. If the saving does not happen, there is nothing to pay. Tax return preparation is billed separately by Barr Advanced Tax Solutions under its own fee schedule.
For clients with $500,000 or more of income, we guarantee to identify at least $10,000 in tax reduction beyond what your current CPA, EA or tax attorney has already found. If we do not, Barr Advanced Tax Solutions prepares your individual federal returns at no charge for the next three years — a stated value of up to $22,500. Eligibility conditions apply and are published in full on our Terms & Guarantees page.
We do not use anything we would not want to explain to an examiner. Each position we take rests on the Internal Revenue Code, the regulations, or settled authority — not on an aggressive reading of a grey area and a hope that nobody looks.
Should any planning we put in place come under scrutiny, we stand behind it and defend the position at no cost to you, for as long as that position is open. You are not handed a strategy and then left alone with it.
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There is a point where staying a sole proprietor costs real money, and a point before it where an entity is just fees and paperwork. Put in your numbers and see which side you are on.
Your answer will appear here. Nothing is sent to us and nothing is stored.
Nothing you type here leaves your browser. There is no email box, no sign-up and no tracking on this tool — the answer is worked out on your own machine and we never see it. Self-employment tax is 15.3% on the first $176,100 of net earnings in 2025 and 2.9% above it (Social Security Administration). The estimate assumes a reasonable salary of 55% of profit, which is a common but not universal position — the right figure depends on what you actually do.
Send us last year's return. Within ten business days we send back one page telling you what we found — and if we find nothing, we will say so plainly. No charge, no obligation, no card.
A working list of what to keep, in what form, for each of the fourteen expenses creators claim most — and the four that are routinely disallowed no matter how the receipt is filed.
One email, the document attached, and nothing else unless you ask. You can tell us to stop at any time.
Quoted on the number of income sources and whether an entity is involved, because that is what actually drives the hours.
Always included: reconciliation of every platform statement you give us, quarterly estimate figures for the year ahead, and a written note of which deductions we accepted and why.
If you are early and the honest answer is that you need a $100 return and nothing more, we will tell you that and charge you $100.