"For freelancers, artists, and the self-employed, tax season can feel like a looming cloud. Hannah Cole's Taxes for Humans: Simplify Your Taxes and Change the World When You're Self-Employed (Wiley, 2025) offers a refreshing antidote: a guide that is as practical as it is empowering. Cole, an artist turned tax specialist and host of the Sunlight Tax podcast, brings empathy and clarity to a topic often shrouded in anxiety and jargon."
"Cole's book is not just about crunching numbers - it's about dismantling fear and reclaiming your agency. With humor and warmth, she walks readers through planning, filing, and even fixing mistakes. As Joe Saul-Sehy, creator of the Stacking Benjamins podcast, puts it, "If you've ever thought, 'Taxes are confusing,' Hannah Cole will walk you through planning, filing, and 'oops' moments in the most entertaining book I've read on taxes.""
"Cole's approach is holistic. She connects financial well-being to personal and community well-being, offering strategies to get every deduction, and build systems that reduce stress. Her framework is designed for people with zero accounting background, making it accessible and actionable. Readers will learn not only how to survive tax season but how to thrive - ending the year stronger, smarter, and more financially secure."
Freelancers, artists, and independent workers receive practical, empathetic tax strategies to reduce anxiety and reclaim agency. The approach emphasizes planning, filing, and correcting mistakes with humor and warmth while guiding people with zero accounting background. It teaches maximizing deductions, building systems that lower stress, and turning tax compliance into civic engagement and financial literacy. The guidance specifically centers women, queer people, BIPOC communities, and other historically underserved groups. Implementing these strategies aims to strengthen year-end finances, increase financial security, and connect individual financial well-being to personal and community resilience.
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