Since self-employment taxes start when you’ve earned $400 or more of self-employment income (doesn’t include W-2 wages), the IRS wants you to report that income as soon as the gross income is at or above $400.
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Bookkeeping
Yes, since a gift certificate is essentially a promise to do work or produce a product in the future, it’s considered a liability (similar to a debt owed) on your financial statements. Once you perform the service or hand over the merchandise they purchased with the gift certificate, you take that amount out of the liability bucket, and move it into your revenue bucket.