Written by: With permission NTAA ATO announces short cut method for claiming home office running costs The ATO has announced a temporary simplified short cut method to make it easier for individual taxpayers to claim deductions for additional running expenses incurred (e.g., additional heating, cooling and lighting costs), as a result of working from home due […]
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The ATO has further clarified the process of how you (employer) can enrol and apply for the JobKeeper payments. Sole –Traders and Self-Employed The ATO will shortly release information on how to apply but we believe that you can apply as an employer but we will advise as we get more clarification. Employers There will […]
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Written by: Evan Lowenstein As I write to you, I have just returned from Shepparton where I had a wonderful day visiting the new $71m Shepparton Art Museum or SAM as it has been affectionately known for the past few years. I saw a most wonderful survey of the great Lin Onus’ work on whose country the […]
Written by: Sue Roff From New York to Philadelphia, from London to Belgium, from Hobart to Sydney, the work of Arts Project Australia studio artists has been receiving growing attention and acclaim on both national and international fronts. As a Melbourne-based studio and gallery for artists with an intellectual disability, the aim of Arts Project is […]
Arts Funding Announcements As we find ourselves amidst the most recent Covid-19 related lockdowns and much news around about regular businesses receiving grants to help them through this difficult time, I thought it fitting to focus on the arts related grants available as many performers and others in the arts are dealing with the cancellation […]
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Written by: Evan Lowensteins After doing some reading over the holiday period, I discovered a report “Giving Attitude” by Creative Partnerships Australia – formerly Australian Business Arts Foundation (ABAF) – the government agency that is involved in arts philanthropy. They are responsible for marshalling private sector involvement in the arts; and also manage the Australian Cultural […]
Written by: Evan Lowensteins In our last edition, we looked at the criteria that the ATO consider when they examine whether an artist is carrying on a bona fide arts practice. Once the various tests that are specified in the ruling have been passed, we can now go on and see what an artist can actually […]
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During the pandemic, a range of initiatives both formal and informal have been established and/or extended and promoted to support artists and allied workers’ mental health. Although we appreciate in these critical times that nothing is really as simple as ‘going to a website’, we hope this range of initiatives might provide the type of […]
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Written by: Evan Lowenstein Over the years Lowensteins have been called on to advise on the necessary steps artists must take to start their own businesses and the particular issues that affect their industry. To that end we have decided to prepare a series of ‘Fact sheets’ that encapsulate basic information on how to start an […]
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Written by: Fiona Gruber When Yvette Coppersmith was fifteen she visited her first Archibald Prize exhibition. “I looked at them all,” she comments “and remember standing there wondering how the artists painted them”. It was two years later, in Year Eleven that she painted herself for the first time. The main image was of the face […]