For feature dancers and performers who work dates in several states

A week in New York is a New York return.

Roadbook keeps every feature week and guest spot — date, state, venue, days, pay and any state tax withheld — totals them by state, and gives each state its answer: home, no income tax, a nonresident return due, no return with the reason written down, or still to decide from that state’s own instructions. It hands the preparer the year on one page.

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The problem

The return nobody filed turns up years later.

New York taxes nonresidents on pay for work done in New York, and most states with an income tax work the same way, each with its own filing line — while the home state usually gives a credit. Nine states have no income tax on this income at all. A touring dancer who never adds the road up finds out with interest.

Source income

pay for work done in New York, and a nonresident may have to file a New York return.

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9 states

have no income tax on this income: AK, FL, NV, NH, SD, TN, TX, WA and WY.

Withheld

state tax taken by a club is settled by filing that state’s return.

Will not hand the preparer a year with gaps.

Not a reminder. Ready for the preparer refuses, with the reason named, while any booking is incomplete — a date with no state, say — or any state with income is still undecided. “No return” needs the reason written down. A state that withheld tax is pointed out. There is no override.

How it works

Bookings, states, the year

Log every booking

Date, state, venue and city, days, pay, state tax withheld, and whether it was paid on a W-2, a 1099 or in cash.

Decide each state

From its own nonresident instructions: file a return, use a dollar line, or no return with the reason.

Hand over the year

The resident return and every nonresident return, with source income, withholding and notes.

What it will never do

It keeps the road. It files nothing.

Roadbook adds up where you worked. Your preparer files the returns.

No state rules guessed.Each state is decided from its own instructions, and the reason is written down.

Not cities.Cities and counties can tax too; Roadbook covers states.

It is not an accountant.Not tax advice.

It never touches a payment.The licence is for software.

Pricing

Priced per year

One missed nonresident return costs more than years of it.

Most features

One performer

$29/year

One performer, every state on the road.

Every booking by state
Each state decided and noted
The year for your preparer

Two years

$49 for two years

This year and last, to catch up.

Everything in One performer
Withholding pointed out
Export for your preparer

Yearly licence. Your bank statement says Roadbook Software. Refunded in full on request within 30 days. Your licence key is emailed to you within two working days of payment.

Checkout is our own bitcoin server, not a card processor — nobody we had to apply to and nobody who can close the account. The button takes you straight to it. Give your email address there — that is where your key is sent.

Questions

The ones we actually get asked

Do I file in every state I danced in?

Not always. Each state has its own line. Roadbook asks you to decide each one from its own instructions and write the reason down.

What if a club withheld state tax?

Roadbook points it out. Filing that state’s return is how the withholding is settled.

What about my home state?

Your resident return covers everything, and usually gives a credit for tax paid to other states.

Is this tax advice?

No. It is the road, added up.

What do I actually get when I pay?

The demo on this page is the whole program, running on invented records. Paying gets you a licence key — one line of text, emailed to the address you give at checkout within two working days. Paste it into the program and from then on it keeps your own records. Until then, nothing you type into it is kept.

The key is checked inside the page, on your own machine. It never calls us, so there is still no account and nothing about your business goes anywhere. If you ever stop paying, your records stay exactly where they are, read-only, and Export still hands you every one of them.

Open the demo before tax season

The invented dancer lives in Oregon. New York is due, Georgia and New Jersey are undecided — New Jersey withheld $180 — Texas and Florida owe nothing, California is under her line, and one booking has no state. Roadbook shows every one.

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