What can I deduct? What do I do with my receipts? Do I really need to pay quarterly taxes? What is a Schedule C? How do I deduct my home studio/office? Is my creative work a business or a hobby?
A long-time working artist with a high-level exhibition history, Hannah has a unique vantage point for understanding the financial challenges of freelancers and small creative businesses. Whether you're a full-time freelancer, or just getting started, this is the tax event for you!
Hannah Cole is a tax expert who specializes in working with self-employed people, especially creative and mission-driven ones. A long-time working artist herself, she’s helped tens of thousands of self-employed people skill up with accessible tax and money education, through her Money Bootcamp program, tax workshops from Florida to Alaska, and on the Sunlight Tax podcast.
Her book, Taxes for Humans: Simplify Your Taxes and Change the World When You’re Self-Employed, is the most funny and empowering tax guide you’ll ever read. Hannah is the founder of Sunlight Tax.
WHAT YOU’LL LEARN
- Managing self-employment as a creator
- Money mindset/the artist stereotype
- How taxes work in self-employment
- Paying quarterly taxes
- Understanding the Schedule C
- Why artists get audited, and how to stay protected
FEES
$10 for both AIGA Members and Nonmembers
PARKING & PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION
Free parking is available close to the front doors of the Presentation School Foundation Community Center in Brighton.
The closest MBTA stop to the Presentation School Foundation Community Center in Brighton is not served directly by a subway line, but is easily accessible via the MBTA Green Line B Branch at the Washington St stop (approx. 0.9 miles away) or, more directly, by bus routes like the 57, 64, or 501 that run through Oak Square.
SPEAKER'S BIO:
Hannah Cole is a tax expert who specializes in working with creative businesses and artists. A long-time working artist with a high-level exhibition history, and a tax and money columnist for the art blog Hyperallergic, the financial challenges of freelancers and small creative businesses are both relevant and personal to Hannah. Hannah Cole is the founder of Sunlight Tax, which specializes in friendly, informative tax preparation for artists, and engaging, art-world savvy tax education workshops for artist groups, and in empowering creative people to set up for long-term success and take control of the financial side of their careers through her year-long artist-centric membership, Money Bootcamp.
Graphic by Anthony Lopez.
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