Stride: Mileage & Tax Tracker

It is a very good mileage tracker but their recent change on the tax estimator makes that part literally garbage. It now assumes your tips are subject to 15.3% self employment taxes with no respect for schedule c deductions for expenses. We all know tips are still subject to self employment taxes but they don’t ignore expenses. Their estimator takes shortcuts that gives you an inaccurate view of your tax bill. Test it out, you can enter expenses that bring you to a loss and if there are tips it will still say you will owe taxes becasue of your tips which is not how that works. I will go to using a spreadsheet, stride was good because its free but I don’t need to be told I should save hundreds of dollars for a tax bill I won’t have because you are taking shortcuts to calculate it. That doesn’t help anyone. What I need is a realistic estimator that lets me know if I even need to file a quarterly payment which isn’t required before you expect to have a tax bill over 1000 for the year. All taxes are against net earnings not gross earnings so tips are reduced by expenses (which you are now calling deductions and ignoring them on the tips)

I’m an Uber eats delivery driver and I have been looking for different ways to track my deductions for my 1099 tax report after searching through multiple apps and researching multiple ways. First thing I wanna say is that this app is absolutely amazing. First of all, it’s 100% free for all the options that you need to track everything. There is an option to pay for a service, but that’s if you want everything automated for you which some people do some people don’t I myself like to enter everything in myself to make sure that everything is proper and in its place I’m very meticulous like that nevertheless, this app is again like I said earlier awesome I don’t really have any other way of explaining it if you’re a gig driver, Uber eats DoorDash or whatever whatever Self-Employed 1099 employee this is the app for you and you won’t use any other one I promise best app I’ve downloaded in years.

This app is just like any other expense tracking app. It works. It’s great. I’ve been using it for years. The only isssue is that when tax season comes along. My deductions are clustered into 1 big amount. I can’t see how many miles I have to traveled that I ca use to deduct from my taxes, on the amount of money I saved from tracking those miles. Furthers more when I add supply and food expenses that also gets combined into the grand total of how much money I save. It doesn’t separate the different categories of deductions that I’ve made. It groups it all together and there is no way for me to see exactly how much money I’ve saved from Miles alone and how much money I’ve saved from supplies food etc. because when my accountant asks how many miles I’ve driven I can’t give an exact answer when they ask how much money you’ve spent on supplies I can’t give an exact answer because the grand total is clustered into one giant number of how much money I’ve saved. So this app needs to organize itself in the way that when people choose a category for deductions he can separate it so the user can identify specifically how much miles I’ve driven how much they’ve save from those total miles and from other categories how much money they spent on supplies how much money they can save based off those deductions they can make to just make it easier for when tax season comes around.