Free Schedule C Expenses Worksheet for Google Sheets

The Schedule C Expenses Worksheet is a free Google Sheet for people who need Part II totals, not another generic spending log. Categories are labeled to Schedule C lines — advertising, car and truck, supplies, and the rest — so a year of freelancer and sole-prop spending rolls up into numbers you can hand to tax software or a preparer. Avery can keep those same categories current from your bank; the sheet itself stays free to copy.

This is general information, not tax advice — confirm with a qualified tax professional.

Who it's for

• Freelancers and 1099 contractors who report that work on Schedule C and want category totals before April.
• Sole proprietors and single-member LLCs filling Part II from a year of mixed bank activity.
• Anyone reconstructing expenses from memory because tax software starts at the form, not at the transactions.

What's inside

A worksheet shaped like the handoff your preparer actually wants:

• Part II categories — each spend lands on a line that matches Schedule C, not a personal budget bucket.
• Quarterly rollups — running totals by category and quarter so estimated payments are not a surprise.
• Receipt column — paste a Google Drive link next to the date, amount, vendor, and business purpose.
• Business % field — mixed-use phone, internet, and similar costs count only the business share.

When to add Avery

Avery Pro brings accounts, expenses, invoices and reports together in the mobile and web apps. Business adds recurring invoices, payment reminders and advanced bookkeeping tools. If you prefer a spreadsheet workflow, Avery for Google Sheets imports transactions from supported accounts, with categories and rules for you to review. Compare the plans. The free template also works with manual entry.

Want the category-by-category tracking guide? Read Schedule C expenses for freelancers, or jump to the Schedule C expenses questions.

The full-system trackers are already live if you want mileage, a home office calculator, and a quarterly view in one sheet: the Freelancer Expense Tracker and the Self-Employed Expense Tracker. The home office write-up is Home office deduction for the self-employed.

Two Cluster 1 companions are not on main yet, so this page does not link them: the self-employed profit and loss template at /templates/self-employed-profit-and-loss, and the Schedule C profit-and-loss guide at /blog/schedule-c-profit-and-loss-for-freelancers. A mileage log at /templates/mileage-log-for-taxes is the same story — noted here, linked when that page ships.