Tax expert Susan Lee discusses tax implications and best practices for freelancers.

Topics:

⭐️ Cashflow

⭐️ Having a will

⭐️ Being your own bookkeeper

⭐️ A financial health checklist and a financial disaster kit

Video Version

https://youtu.be/uJQLmbiwCA0

Freelance Taxation

https://www.freelancetaxation.com/

Pieter Bruegel The Elder

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pieter_Bruegel_the_Elder

The Beekeepers

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pieter_Bruegel_the_Elder#/media/File:Pieter_Brueghel_the_Elder_-_The_Beekeepers_and_the_Birdnester,_c1568_-_Kupferstichkabinett_Berlin.jpg

Kunsthistorisches Museum - Vienna

https://www.khm.at/en

The Albertina Museum - Vienna

https://www.albertina.at/en/

Bird by Bird

https://bookshop.org/p/books/bird-by-bird-some-instructions-on-writing-and-life-anne-lamott/7937cf657650025e?ean=9780385480017&next=t&aid=86693&listref=artistic-finance-books

Altadena

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eaton_Fire

Abortion Bans by State

https://www.guttmacher.org/state-policy/explore/state-policies-abortion-bans#:~:text=shortly%20after%20birth.-,Highlights,bans%20based%20on%20gestational%20duration.

Maternal Mortality

https://thegepi.org/maternal-mortality-abortion-bans/

Susan Lee has prepared taxes for freelancers and artists in New York City for over twenty years. She is a Certified Financial Planner Professional™ who created FreelancerTaxation.com with the intention to give freelancers and artists basic information that will allow them to take advantage of their self-employed status and to meet the challenges inherent in freelancing.

Susan has written these articles for, as well as spoken to, freelancers and artist organizations including Columbia University, Bronx Museum of the Arts, Graphic Artists Guild, New York Foundation for the Arts, National Writers Union, Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts, Music Cares, The Drawing Center, and others.

(Audio problems? I made a mistake uploading, so delete the episode and then try to play it again.) Costume designer Elsa Hiltner talks about the lack of pay equity in theatrical design and what she is doing about it.

Topics:

⭐️ Living wage

⭐️ The Pay Equity Standards

⭐️ The Theatrical Designer Pay Resource

⭐️ Annual income for Chicago-based non-union costume designers

Video Version:

https://youtu.be/8DZsxRe0w_g

https://www.elsahiltner.com/

Elsa Hiltner is an organizer and activist for pay and labor equity in the arts. She has worked for over 15 years as a freelance artist and arts non-profit administrator, including as director of development for Collaboraction Theatre Company and her current role as director of programs at a legal service organization that supports artists in Illinois.

These experiences as an arts worker deeply inform her work as an arts advocate. Her essays on labor and pay equity have inspired systemic change in the theatre industry, and the tools she has created including the Pay Equity Standards and the Theatrical Designer Pay Resource have been used nation-wide by individuals and organizations to promote pay transparency and pay equity. She is a co-founder of On Our Team, and in 2021, she was honored to receive the Michael Merritt Arts Advocacy Award.

Photo of Elsa by zakkiyyah najeebah dumas-o'neal

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