Discussion Panel for Artists

1099s: What You Don’t Know Could Cost You!

What Individual Artists and Small Companies Need to Know about Taxes and the Law when Engaging Contractors and Hiring Employees

Designed especially for small companies and individual artists.

If you conduct business in the United States you are responsible to know the law.

Goals: to know when to ask questions and seek expert advice, to learn about employer/employee status, 1099s, payroll, contracts, and to build a knowledge base for the arts community

Monday Oct 26, 2009 4:30-6:30pm

Location: The Live Arts Festival Office 919 N 5th St, Philadelphia, PA 19123

Registration strongly recommended. Space limited.

To register call 215-922-5970 or email admin@danceusaphiladelphia with your name, organization (if applicable) and phone.

Sponsored by Dance/USA Philadelphia in partnership with White Box Theatre

Panelists:

Michelle Burkhardt, Dance USA, lawyer, consultant

Cindy Bortman, Tax Lawyer

Bruce Newman, Unemployment Compensation Board, Referee

Richard Swartz, Lawyer, Philadelphia Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts

Sebastienne Mundheim, White Box Theatre

Amy Smith, Headlong Dance Theatre

AGENDA

4:30- 4:35 Sebastienne Mundheim: Welcome, Story/Goals, Introduction Panelists.

4:35-4:45: Richard Swartz/ Bruce Newman: Criteria for Classification, Short history/explanation about why these definitions exist and how they serve people.

4:45-4:55 Michelle Burkhardt: New York Dance Companies: Case Study.

4:55 -5:10 Amy Smith/ Michelle Burkhardt Choosing status of your relationships. Pros and Cons. Tax returns and City of Philadelphia Business Licensing. How might decision making change contingent on your status: incorporated non-profit, unincorporated entity, individual artist?

5:10-5:25 Richard Swartz/Michelle Burkhardt Contracts and legal compliance.

5:25-5:45 Amy Smith Payroll and 501(c)(3) Federal and state unemployment and workers comp issues.

5:45-6:00 Bruce Newman Federal and state unemployment and workers comp issues.

6:00-6:05 Mundheim collects written questions for the panel to answer.

6:05-6:30 Q and A responses

6:30-7:00 People invited to remain for 30 minutes.