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While you’re making a list of resolutions, you should start compiling another list—of your 2013 employers. “The biggest thing we tell our clients at this time of year is write down a list of everyone who has paid you money in the last year,” said Chuck Sloan, a Los Angeles–based tax expert who works with actors. “That way you know who you should be expecting a tax form from and who to contact if you don’t get it.” One piece of mail actors in Los Angeles don’t want to get is a letter from the city’s Office of Finance. Creative artists (a category that includes actors, dancers, and writers) are subject to the city’s business tax—but only if they make over $300,000 or fail to register with the city by the end of February. Sloan noted the city’s tax is about $5 per $1,000, unless a penalty is assessed.

Fans of the supernatural web series The Inn will be thrilled to know that Season 2 is now streaming online. Steve Silverman's creepy show launched its second season recently, and you can shuffle on over, check in and check it out.

Watch full episodes of The Inn at TheInnTheSeries.com. For more be sure to "like" The Inn on Facebook and follow The Inn on Twitter (@inntheseries).

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Steve Silverman, creator of the critically-acclaimed, award-winning Pretty, continues to surprise audiences with his Hitchcockian influenced series The Inn. Crystal Chappell, two-time Emmy winner and creator of Venice the Series, returns in the lead role of Jane, a woman on the run with more than one secret to hide. Adding to the mystery is the addition of internet sensation Mark Gantt (The Bannen Way), a man who may or may not hold the key to the truth of Jane's past.

Dear Jackie::i have a difficult time understanding how the unions are protecting the "working actor," and I am hoping you can help to clear something up for me.Why is there a cap on the income that they charge dues on? For the Screen Actors Guild, the sliding scale is 1.85 percent for income of $200,000 and under, 0.5 percent on $200,001–$500,000, and 0.25 percent on $500,001 to a maximum of $1,000,000.So if an actor stars in one film in a three-year period, does nothing else, and is paid $15,000,000 for that film (excluding residuals, to keep it simple), he or she would pay $116 in base dues for two years and $6,442.50 for the year that he or she was in the film. That is a total of $6,674.50 over the three-year period, or 0.00031 percent of income. An actor making $250,000 a year for three consecutive years would pay a total of $11,835 to SAG for the $750,000 in income, or 1.578 percent of income.