A smart artist’s guide to income taxes

If you know you need to figure out your taxes, but your first instinct is to save it for another time—stop, and stick around a bit longer.

Aren’t taxes the biggest, scariest business issue you have to deal with every year? Then why do we, as artists and creative thinkers, tend to put off tackling this crucial topic?

In my experience as a small-business money mentor, too many artists and creatives shy away from financial topics because traditional money advice doesn’t suit creative brains. We don’t think traditionally. We don’t hold traditional jobs and we certainly don’t conform to traditional values.