For Spark, rideshare, and delivery drivers
Keep What You Earn: The Gig Driver's Tax Playbook
The tax code doesn't explain itself to a driver doing sixty hours a week. This does.
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Who this is for
You drive for Spark, Uber, Lyft, DoorDash, Instacart, or a mix of them. You get a 1099, not a W-2, and nobody at the app is going to tell you what you can write off. This book is for the driver who wants to stop overpaying every April and stop guessing every quarter — not for a CPA, and not for someone running a fleet.
What it saves you
The math, worked once: a driver logging 500 business miles a week — about 26,000 a year — deducts $18,850 at the 2026 IRS rate of 72.5¢/mile, before a single other expense. That's not a marketing number, it's what the standard mileage rate is actually worth at a realistic weekly mileage. The book walks the same math for your real numbers.
TODO — replace with your own after-the-fact figure once you have one (an actual before/after from your own returns hits harder than any worked example).
What's covered
- 01What actually counts as a business expenseCH. 1
- 02The mileage rate vs. actual expenses — picking the one that paysCH. 2
- 03Quarterly estimated taxes, without the guessworkCH. 3
- 04Tracking that survives an audit, not just a spreadsheet you forgetCH. 4
- 05Schedule C, line by line, for a driver instead of a shop ownerCH. 5
- 06The new tip deduction, and what it doesn't coverCH. 6
TODO — chapter list above is a placeholder structure. Confirm real chapter count and titles.
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