Taxes for Artists w/ Amy Smith

“Taxes for Artists w/ Amy Smith”  w/ Amy Smith

Wednesday, March 17, 2021 | 2:00 – 4:00 PM

For decades, Amy Smith has prepared taxes for artists, taught financial well-being workshops, and coached artists one-on-one. This webinar will cover the basics of taxes for artists, including separating personal and artistic finances, Schedule C filing, self-employment versus employment, and tracking deductions. This webinar will have a particular eye toward artists’ current financial challenges and the ways in which the CARES Act and more recent pandemic relief acts will change taxes this year. Amy Smith is an educator, professional tax-preparer and the former Co-Director of Headlong Dance Theater, a Bessie-award winning Philadelphia-based dance theater company.

Suitable for artists of all disciplines.

Priority given to artists who live in Essex County, MA.
Note: If you do not live in Essex, your registration may not be approved until the week before the webinar, when we’re able to see how many Essex County artists have registered.

Register for free via Zoom

With the COVID-19 pandemic’s devastating effect on practicing artists, Assets for Artists has redesigned its business and financial education programming to provide artists with recovery-focused, distance-learning opportunities that largely retain the intimate cohort-focused style of our in-person workshops. Let’s come together to discuss current challenges, relief efforts, and opportunities for artists’ financial futures.

All workshops are FREE and held via Zoom, with pre-registration required to keep the webinar cohorts at a size that maximizes participation and peer support. 
 
WORKSHOP REGISTRATION PRIORITIES: Generally, our workshops are open to artists who currently live in the states of Massachusetts, Rhode Island, or Connecticut. In general, space is limited, and your registration is not guaranteed to be approved. Please be aware that priority will be given to:

Artists whose practice best matches the focus of the training.
Artists of color. A4A recognizes that the dire impacts of the pandemic have disproportionately affected BIPOC communities, and our 2021 programming is especially focused on supporting artists of color.
For RI & CT: preference will be given to artists in rural areas due to a collaboration with the USDA.
Artists who meet additional geographic priorities due to partnerships with organizations in a given region. These will be specified with individual workshops.
 
Learn about Assets for Artists’ accessibility resources
for artists who live with impairments and disabilities.