Are you ready for your tax?

I need to start gathering all the requirements that i need in paying my taxes at the end of the year so i wont be bothered by it anymore. I just called the person (family friend) who does our taxes to inquire her about the estimated tax for individual self employed, and i asked her how it works since i know nothing about tax thing, i also asked her how many percent do we have to pay. I don't want to be surprised and find out that i will be paying a bigger amount of money at the end of the year. Oh my that's gonna be a bummer! But oh well what can i do, i have to be responsible enough in paying all my dues and not have to be reminded about my responsibilities towards the government. OK here's what I've learned from her (person doing our tax).

• I need to keep all the records of all my earnings (from all of my sources) and total everything, even those earnings below $600 from individual sites that I've earned because that's how they will base my tax.
• I need to file/keep all those receipts that i bought related to my job such as laptop, bills (usage of the Internet), long distance related to my jobs etc...)
• Keep everything then she'll inform me for additional requirements when the filing of tax comes.

She said that it's 15% of our earnings will be the tax but it will depend on the brackets we may belong, she also said that sometimes it may even reach 30% for our earnings, it all depends on our tax brackets. According to her that each paid to blog site will send us a 1099 form whenever we've reach the earnings amounted $600 or above because each sites are responsible to do that, but she said that still the IRS will ask for the total amount we've earned from all the sources we have including those sites that we've earned less than $600. That mean we have to keep tracking all our earnings from all of our sources because no matter what we will have to pay for it. All US bloggers are required to do this though heheheh so I'm not alone!