<prompt> Human: Howdy RFinancers. Long story short, I work from home as of 1 week ago. Im an Illustrator Graphic Designer. Now that Im working for myself, taxes and things of the sort are a scary dark thing.I ran a budget for myself. In order to have all the bills paid, groceries bought etc. I need to make a nut of 360 a week. Its not that much money which helped make the decision to stay at home and work rather than look for another job when I was let go from my previous position in the printing world. In the past week alone, Ive made close to 1500 doing freelance work. I have 1 client in particular that is steady long-term weekly work. He hired me as his head designer, and I pitch him ideas and prices and he says ya or neh. Its a sweet gig. I have about a dozen other clients that order work through me periodically throughout the months. websites etc.So far, Ive created a spreadsheet of all incoming payments, and auto deducted 30 for taxes which Ive set aside in a savings account not to be touched. Is this enough? What about state I live in NY State social security etc???As far as deductions go, we were able to claim my home office last year as it serves 1 purpose, work. Its approx 14 the size of my apartment, at 200 sq feet. I also had some equipment expenses last year that I claimed an 1800 computer and the year before a 1000 drawing tablet. Ive been keeping a detailed log of any meetings Ive had, 2 this past week, the distance I had to drive there and back as well as what we discussed etc. So Im not totally disorganized, but I havent talked to a financial expert yet and I know I need to man-up and make an appointment like today.Here are the questions I have: -How much should I be setting aside for taxes, social security general witholding of any type? -Should I be paying my taxed quarterly? The quarter is about to end does that mean I need to file for what little time Ive worked so far from home? -Can I claim the following as deductions: gas mileage to meetings with clients, paypal fees on client deposits, internet cost even though its built into my rent? -How many bank accounts should I have? Should I have some kind of savings for taxes and witholdings, one for business expenses, my personal savings and my personal checking? At some point when my witholding is large enough is there a smarter type of account to put that money into? -Are there any tax benefits I should know about for someone in my position? Any insentives?Thats the short version of events. These are a few things I wanted to get clear on and my fiance told me Rfinance is an awesome place for advice! Thanks in advance for any help I receive! Im going to look up a local accountant or financial advisor I can talk to now as well.  <response>: Id suggest you format your post into paragraphs to make it more readable. Youll get more answers that way. 