{"id":17631,"date":"2025-01-02T15:48:46","date_gmt":"2025-01-02T15:48:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/taxes-dumb-it-down-for-a-dummy\/"},"modified":"2025-01-02T15:48:46","modified_gmt":"2025-01-02T15:48:46","slug":"taxes-dumb-it-down-for-a-dummy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/taxes-dumb-it-down-for-a-dummy\/","title":{"rendered":"Taxes&#8230; Dumb It Down For A Dummy!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/>Sorry if this has been covered elsewhere but remember, I&#039;m a dummy&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Can someone explain (in small words) how the taxes for owner operator&#039;s with an LLC work?  <\/p>\n<p>I&#039;ve read that the self employment tax is 15.3% but I assume that&#039;s just for the federal side of things?  Will more than that be owed to the state?  I&#039;ve read a good rule of thumb is to save 30% for taxes&#8230; what is the other 14.7% for?<\/p>\n<p>Secondly, are your taxes paid off of your gross income before or after expenses are paid?  I&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruckersreport.com\/truckingindustryforum\/threads\/taxes-dumb-it-down-for-a-dummy.2518492\/\" class=\"internalLink\">Taxes&#8230; Dumb It Down For A Dummy!<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruckersreport.com\/truckingindustryforum\/threads\/taxes-dumb-it-down-for-a-dummy.2518492\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry if this has been covered elsewhere but remember, I&#039;m a dummy&#8230; Can someone explain (in small words) how the taxes for owner operator&#039;s with an LLC work? I&#039;ve read that the self employment tax is 15.3% but I assume that&#039;s just for the federal side of things? Will more than that be owed to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17632,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17631"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17631\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}