register as sole proprietor or claim cash how i did last year
State: MA Good morning, I work as an Exotic dancer so I have a W-2 for the place I work at but I work there maybe 20hrs a month. they also do not let us record even a fraction of the tips we make. on my tax for from them every year it says I made somewhere between 15k-25k. I make most of my income working as an escort. lets say between the two jobs I make roughly 200k. last year when I did my taxes I did my W-2 and then at the end I put the rest under the category of "unrecorded income" or whatever it was called and i put the source as "housecleaning, babysitting, tips". That's the same thing I put when they ask me for a source when I deposit the cash at the bank. I don't have any expenses I want to write off as business expenses or anything so what I'm wondering is do I really need to register myself as a business or can I keep doing it the way I did last year? What makes more sense? Thank you in advance 🙏 also I don't use reddit and I've never been to any school, please go easy on me.