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Taxes for Freelancers, Self-employed People and Solopreneurs with Hannah Cole, ENROLLED AGENT and Founder of Sunlight Tax
What can I deduct? What do I do with my receipts? Do I really need to pay quarterly taxes? What is a Schedule C? How do I deduct my home office/studio?
Hannah Cole is a tax expert, artist, and small business owner who specializes in working with self-employed people, especially creative and mission-driven ones.
She will make taxes visual and understandable with a “tax pictionary” live drawing, and she’ll discuss the basic tax equation, self employment tax and the estimated quarterly tax system, audit concerns for the creative person, and other tax issues specifically relevant to freelancers, and solo businesses, followed by a robust Q &A. Hannah Cole is the founder of Sunlight Tax, and she specializes in friendly, informative tax education for creatives, healers, and people who feel like the black sheep of the business world. Her mission is to empower self-employed people to set up for long-term success and take control of the financial side of their careers through her program, Money Bootcamp. Her book, Taxes for Humans, is an empowering guide to doing (and simplifying) your taxes when you’re self-employed, and the accompanying workbook has the tax organizer and checklists you need to get it all done, every year. You can get the simple tax tips and the podcast each week on her Substack, Taxes for Humans.
Meet the Instructors
Jackie Sanders
Jackie Sanders is an abstract geometric artist based in downtown Raleigh, NC on a mission to transform life’s mundane moments into memorable experiences. After earning her MFA from Virginia Tech, Jackie grew her expertise in digital marketing and content creation for small business owners as a way to help them bring their visions to life. Jackie is the co-host of the Level Up Artist Podcast and a creative business mentor to career minded artists through her Level Up Artist Membership Community. She currently has a community facing art studio in downtown Raleigh, NC at Artspace where she shows the creative process in action to visitors and future collectors.
Jennifer Reis
Jennifer A. Reis, assistant professor of arts administration and entrepreneurship at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, has 25 years experience in arts business and administration. She earned a BFA from Columbus College of Art and Design, and graduate work in arts management, instructional design, studio art, and arts education from Syracuse University, UNC-Greensboro, and Morehead State University. She is a master facilitator for adult learning initiatives such as the Kauffman Foundation’s FastTrac entrepreneurship education program, AIR Collaborative’s courses, and an arts entrepreneurship curricular consultant for the Tamarack Foundation. Through her consulting company Make Do Creative, she works with organizations for creative entrepreneurship curriculum. She is a textile and mixed media artist. She has been honored with numerous awards and prizes, including Kentucky’s Al Smith Fellowship, national adjudicated and invitational exhibitions, and teaching opportunities at Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, John C. Campbell Folk School, Craft Alliance Center of Art + Design, Cleveland Institute of Art, Society of Contemporary Craft, and the Southwest School of Art. She also has a production textile line of Indigo Shibori art to wear and homegoods and is currently represented by Troika Gallery in Floyd, VA. She is on the Teaching Artist Roster of the Virginia Commission for the Arts, and resides in Martinsville, Virginia.
Hannah Cole
Hannah Cole is a tax expert, artist, and small business owner who specializes in working with self-employed people, especially creative and mission-driven ones. She’s helped tens of thousands of self-employed people skill up with accessible tax and money education, through her Money Bootcamp program, tax workshops from Florida to Alaska, and on the Sunlight Tax podcast. Her book, Taxes for Humans: Simplify Your Taxes and Change the World When You’re Self-Employed, is the most funny and empowering tax guide you’ll ever read. You can get the simple tax tips and the podcast each week on her Substack, Taxes for Humans. Hannah is the founder of Sunlight Tax.
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