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How to keep on the right side of the tax man

10/9/2016

Top of my article about artists' business expenses and tax in 'The Artist' September 2016

My article in the September edition of The Artist magazine (in the UK) is all about how to Be business-like with expenses and tax.

It contains lots of brief tips about how to make your tax affairs easier to manage and avoid problems with the Inland Revenue. Headings include:

Starting out - what you need to do when you start to trade and sell art
Tax Returns - the forms you need to complete
Help yourself - why you may not need an accountant
Be organised - ways to keep on top of the paperwork
Account efficiently - simple ways to keep your accounting simple
Allowable expenses - what you can claim
Cash-based expenses - a checklist for those accounting on a cash basis
Flat rate expenses - HMRC approved rates which make life even simpler!
Cash expenses not allowed - what you can't claim
Losses - pointers to the guidance on losses
If you are successful - how accounting and tax changes (in brief) as you generate more income

The tips are all one side of A4 making them very easy to file!

This edition is still on sale in all good newsagents in the UK but is also available as a back issue and is also available online as a digital subscription.

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I've been commissioned to write a series of ten articles for The Artist Magazine - part of Painters Online.

They'll be published on the last page of the magazine (page 66) throughout 2016.

Topics covered are:

20 tactics for buying art materials
How to avoid frames eating your profit
How to afford to exhibit you art
Display your art - for free
Copyright and how to protect your images online
Tips for posting and shipping artwork
How to get your art printed
How to price your art
Business expenses and tax allowances for the artist
VAT for the artist

(Note some of the articles are not yet written and the titles are provisional)

Katherine Tyrrell bio for The Artist Magazine

My bio on the articles for the Artist references this website

The articles will look at more cost-effective practices and money-saving tips related to the the business of being an artist.

If you'd like to read my series of articles - and the rest of what is an excellent magazine - you can access the different ways to subscribe via the website.

The magazine is also available in digital format and consequently can be read by anybody anywhere in the world

Alternatively you can browse a selection of pages taken from the December issue of The Artist below - and buy a copy of subscribe to the magazine.

via Pocketmags
via iTunes (probably the easiest method for owners of an iPad or iPhone)
via Google Play

The top of the first article - which is about buying art materials

Katherine Tyrrell begins her new series with a look at money-saving tips for purchasing art materials
The Artist - February 2016 preview

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