Charging for services

[Wimblees]

In a message dated 98-05-05 19:54:26 EDT, you write:

Rev. Bie:

Excuse me, and with all due respect, but I think you might have a distorted
view of how to make a living. If you deducted your expeses off what you
charged, and wound up with no income, then all you did was perform for free.
If that is what you wanted to do, fine, but for the rest of us, we have
families to support. Perhaps you had another source of income, but most of us
don't, and so we have to charge customers not only for our expenses, but
additional money to buy the groceries and pay the mortgage. You might call it
greed. I call it making a living, and not such a great one at that. 

I hope you read, and understood, my post on how to charge for your services. 

Willem Blees  RPT
St. Louis


>The world has changed, and I am appalled.  No wonder people can't afford
>anything.
>
>Back in my days of being an independent musician I deducted these things from
>my income tax form as business expenses from the money I charged as fees,
>usually ending with no profit on which to pay taxes.  I never dreamed of
>charging customers for my own business expenses.  I thought these were
>deductions to subtract from what I earned.  Now people are terying to charge
>the client, the customer and the student for expenses of running a private
>business.  So now the ethic seems to overchargwe the customer for one's own
>business expenses and don't bother with submitting expenses to the IRS.  I
>can't believe that our nation has become so greedy as to overcharge others
>for
>ones own business expenses. 
>Shock!
>
>>vacation time
>>convention costs
>>insurance costs
>>auto expenses
>>office and work space
>>new tools
>>...etc...
>
>
>America - the land of greed! 
>Rev. Peggy C. Bie