About
The tax math, done once, in a file you keep.
Paid & Filed makes a bookkeeping and quarterly tax spreadsheet for freelancers, 1099 contractors, gig workers and anyone else who files a Schedule C, plus free tools and plain-English guides. It’s a small, independent business, started in 2026.
Brandon Sooknanan, founder. He builds simple tools that turn a bank statement into the numbers self-employed people actually need, with no subscription and no bank login.
Why it exists
Nobody takes tax out of a self-employed paycheck. You’re meant to work out what you owe four times a year, and the usual ways to do that cost a monthly subscription, want your bank login, or leave you guessing at a percentage. Paid & Filed does it in one spreadsheet you own: paste in your bank transactions and it sorts them into Schedule C lines and tells you what to pay by the next due date.
How we check our numbers
- Every tax figure comes from a primary source: IRS forms, instructions, revenue procedures and news releases, and the Social Security Administration. We don’t copy numbers from other websites.
- Each guide and tool lists its sources and the date we last checked them. The 2026 and 2027 tax numbers page has every figure in one place, and the calculator uses the same ones.
- When the IRS changes a figure during the year, as it did with the business mileage rate on July 1, 2026, we update the guides and tools and change the date on the page.
- We go through everything again when the IRS publishes the next year’s figures.
- Spotted a mistake? Email hello@paidandfiled.com. We fix confirmed errors and update the page’s date.
Paid & Filed isn’t a tax firm, CPA, enrolled agent or tax preparer. The workbook, calculator and guides give estimates and general information for planning, not tax advice. Check your own return with a tax professional.
What’s free, and how we make money
The 5 free tools and 20 guides need no account and no email. The calculator and the bank statement converter run in your browser, so what you type or drop in isn’t sent to us. There are no ads on the site, and we never sell what we know about you (privacy).
We make money from one thing: the Paid & Filed Workbook, $29 once, no subscription, with a 14-day refund (terms). That pays for the free tools.
For writers, teachers and resource pages
- Link to any page here. You don’t need to ask.
- Quote our figures with a link to the page they come from. The tax numbers page has a citation ready to copy.
- Put the 1099 tax calculator on your own site with one snippet of code.
- Share the free profit and loss template with clients, students or a workshop. Please link to its page rather than copying the file, so people always get the current version.
- Our logo: logo.png. A one-line description: “Paid & Filed (paidandfiled.com) makes free tax tools and a $29 bookkeeping and quarterly tax spreadsheet for freelancers, 1099 contractors and other self-employed people.”
