This workshop will cover the rules and issues involved in filing taxes for creative people. We’ll cover the essentials – tax deductions, recordkeeping, grant income considerations, setting up your books, and tax planning – for filing your federal and state tax returns. (Please note: sales tax is covered in a separate workshop.)
This workshop is part of a series of virtual workshops being presented in partnership with Hennepin County Library. It is a part of Work of Art+, workshops that complement the 12-part Work of Art: Business Skills for Artists series, a professional development curriculum designed to teach business skills to artists in all disciplines. The curriculum is always available for free download, or you can buy a copy of the book to support your practice.
Presenter: Caitlin Rae Warner (she/they)
Bio: Caitlin Rae Warner has been an enrolled agent tax practitioner since 2015. Before that, she earned her BFA in Print/Paper/Books from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design in 2012. Due to this mixed professional background, she is uniquely experienced with helping creative folks to navigate the often conflicting, complicated, or just plain daunting necessities of balancing taxes with life as an artist. She is especially interested in understanding the story of and supporting the person behind the tax forms that she prepares (which number in the thousands after this many years of doing taxes!)
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