The 22-year-old adult star revealed that she has had to think like a ‘top CFO’ in order to manage her eye-watering 6 figure monthly tax bill, and that she pays way more than the average person
NSFW content sharing sites have helped launch the careers of countless adult stars and revoultionised the porn industry in the process, allowing sex workers to make content for, and get paid by, their customers.
And with subscription based adult content sharing sites boasting over 300 million monthly users, top creators are raking in the cash, with some porn actors and actresses being paid upwards of $10 million a month via the site’s subscription model. One of these new porno-millionaires is the adult actress Skylar Mae, who reportedly earns as much as $15 million a year from fees paid by her loyal subscribers.
However, as any high earner will tell you, with this eye-watering salary naturally comes a whopping great tax bill. 22-year-old Mae is no different, with the adult actress admitted she has in the past paid as much as $400,000 a month in taxes alone.
“I think everyone forgets we pay taxes just like everyone else. People also seem to forget that the more you earn, the more tax you pay” said Mae.
“So in the case of all these [adult] stars who are making millions, they would pay a really high amount of tax, and what they actually take home compared to the earnings they show online would be hugely different. In my case I’m paying more than 5x the average person’s yearly salary just in tax a month.”
Mae says she couldn’t quite believe some of the figures at first, but admits she has found ways of minimising her tax bill slightly.
My business does the same write offs as a ‘normal’ successful business. It’s probably taken me two or three years to really create this system.
I now have a spreadsheet where I colour-coordinate everything and make it super organized” emphasised Mae.
The adult star admitted to finding finance management tricky at first, but says she’s having to learn the same things as any business owner.
“I really am like any CFO of a multi million dollar company, I handle wires, all the accounting on my end of the business, and I just rely on my CPA to let me know how much I owe for each quarter of the tax season”, she claimed.
“Overall, I’m just trying to be smarter with money and not so willing to spend, spend, spend.”
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