How to Use self-employment in a Sentence

self-employment

noun
  • For them, the challenges of self-employment beat the constant threat of layoffs.
    Jennifer Wilson, The New Yorker, 16 Dec. 2024
  • TaxAct’s treatment of self-employment income and expenses is much like the rest of the site.
    PCMAG, 27 Nov. 2024
  • 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
  • For Gen Z, self-employment is also about having more control over their lives.
    Bynick Rockel, Fortune, 1 Mar. 2024
  • 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
  • Enter the total from your 1099-Ks in the income section, along with any other self-employment or business income.
    Brian Sloan, CNBC, 30 Jan. 2025
  • There are entrepreneur or startup visas, self-employment visas, student visas, and so on.
    Kathleen Peddicord, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2024
  • For income tax, an LLC with only one member is treated as separate from its owner, and is subject to the tax on net earnings from self-employment.
    Molly Higgins, WIRED, 14 Jan. 2025
  • The fee is further reduced when stylist agency fees and self-employment taxes are taken into account.
    K.j. Yossman, Variety, 7 Aug. 2023
  • Identify your self-employment goals when considering a move What might self-employment look like for you?
    Nerdwallet, The Mercury News, 27 May 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • This income could come from traditional employment, such as a part-time job, or from self-employment activities such as babysitting or lawn mowing.
    Winnie Sun, CNBC, 29 Sep. 2024
  • This income could come from traditional employment, such as a part-time job, or from self-employment activities, such as babysitting or lawn mowing.
    Winnie Sun, CNBC, 13 Oct. 2024
  • 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
  • For example, the requirements for proof of self-employment didn’t come until later in the program, after many had already collected benefits.
    David Lightman, Sacramento Bee, 18 Apr. 2024
  • There are, of course, other social media apps that have helped influencers and content creators launch themselves into self-employment, but both Larson and Lopez note that none of the payout models seem to be as lucrative as TikTok’s.
    Sara Belcher, People.com, 10 Jan. 2025
  • Estimated tax is used to pay income tax plus self-employment tax and alternative minimum tax.
    Medora Lee, USA TODAY, 6 June 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • It’s also well documented that immigrants have higher rates of self-employment, whether that means working as an Uber driver, pushing a street food cart or launching an ambitious tech business.
    Don Lee, Los Angeles Times, 31 July 2024
  • The deduction is limited to the individual’s net earnings from self-employment.
    Margie Zable Fisher, Fortune Well, 24 Aug. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • Relying on solely self-employment doesn’t look to be on the horizon for most business owners as a steady income, health care benefits and retirement security continue to be top-of-mind priorities.
    Kanika Talwar, WWD, 28 Jan. 2025
  • 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
  • In theory, umbrella companies offer a streamlined approach to handling the administrative burdens that come with self-employment.
    Jules Herd, Forbes, 11 Sep. 2024

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