4. You can deduct 50% of your self-employment taxes

Did you know that you can actually deduct half of your self-employment taxes? That’s crazy! To fund the Medicare and Social Security programs, the American government estimates a slightly higher than 15% Federal Insurance Contributions Act tax on all earnings.

As you already know, employers have to split the cost with the people that work for them, but those who are self-employed have to pay the entire amount by themselves. The good news is that the government wants to help the citizens, so they allow people to deduct half of the amount they had to pay from their income taxes.

Other than that, experts say that you don’t even have to itemize to claim this tax deduction, which is always great!