How to Use self-employment in a Sentence
self-employment
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Italy’s visa options include a long or short-term self-employment visa, or lavorno autonomo, and a start-up visa.
—Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 15 Jan. 2024
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For Gen Z, self-employment is also about having more control over their lives.
—Bynick Rockel, Fortune, 1 Mar. 2024
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One-third of Gen Z believes that the best way to wealth is self-employment, according to a December survey.
—Irina Ivanova, Fortune, 24 Jan. 2024
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There are entrepreneur or startup visas, self-employment visas, student visas, and so on.
—Kathleen Peddicord, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2024
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The fee is further reduced when stylist agency fees and self-employment taxes are taken into account.
—K.j. Yossman, Variety, 7 Aug. 2023
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After answering a series of basic questions about your business or gig work, Cash App Taxes wants to know about your self-employment income.
—PCMAG, 5 Feb. 2024
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The vast majority of companies are started in the home, by people following their dreams of self-employment and seeking control of their own destinies.
—Andy Unanue, Fortune, 29 May 2023
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There’s been a particular acceleration in the gig economy—self-employment increased about 20 percent in the first two years of the pandemic.
—Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 1 May 2023
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The gig economy, as well as opportunities for self-employment that can be used as an entrepreneurial tool, is also giving Gen Z-ers a way out from the doldrums of work routines.
—Michèle Lamont, WIRED, 8 Jan. 2024
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For those with good careers and good benefits, retirement may well mean a time to try an encore career, experiment with self-employment, find part-time work, or stick with a current employer for a few more years.
—Chris Farrell, Fortune Well, 6 Apr. 2023
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However, the success of creating or replacing an income and the freedom that self-employment can bring often leads to complacency.
—Peter Boolkah, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2023
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Estimated tax is used to pay income tax plus self-employment tax and alternative minimum tax.
—Medora Lee, USA TODAY, 6 June 2023
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That is, women opting for self-employment to escape the un-meetable demands of managing a career, childrearing, and household management.
—Gemma Allen, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2024
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Past studies have pointed to Gen Z being more in favor of self-employment as they’re met with the realities of an increasingly expensive economy.
—Prarthana Prakash, Fortune Europe, 28 Feb. 2024
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The deduction is limited to the individual’s net earnings from self-employment.
—Margie Zable Fisher, Fortune Well, 24 Aug. 2023
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Here entrepreneurship looks like another name for self-employment, and self-employment a euphemism for unemployment.
—Hari Kumar Atul Loke, New York Times, 28 June 2023
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Deliveroo argues that its riders enjoy the flexibility provided by self-employment, with many using it as a side hustle or a stepping stone to other careers.
—Ryan Hogg, Fortune Europe, 18 Mar. 2024
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Spain also has great public healthcare (and healthcare reimbursements), international schools, and self-employment visas that may appeal to entrepreneurs, freelancers, and digital nomads.
—Lilly Graves, Travel + Leisure, 6 June 2023
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Once your business reaches this level of profitability, the S corporation status will shelter your income from 15.3% self-employment taxes resulting in significant tax savings.
—Cindy McGhee, Forbes, 8 Mar. 2023
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Publication 505, Tax Withholding and Estimated Tax includes worksheets and examples that can be helpful to those with dividend or capital gains income; those who owe alternative minimum tax or self-employment tax; or special situations.
—Medora Lee, USA TODAY, 6 June 2023
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The individual typically lacks a local connection, local law allows contributions of assets other than cash, or local law does not limit the amount of contributions by reference to income earned from employment or self-employment activities.
—Carrie Brandon Elliott, Forbes, 20 Apr. 2023
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California’s Employment Development Department lists what qualifies as wages, which includes payment for work performed, tips, residual pay, self-employment income and severance.
—Jessica Roy, Los Angeles Times, 6 July 2023
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