Archive of Henry Lydiate‘s Artlaw column, published in Art Monthly since 1976. Have a legal question about your career? Check our Directory or send us a legal query.
If I sell artwork through a gallery based abroad, can they deduct ‘withholding tax’ on my earnings?
‘Withholding tax’ is an amount held by the party making a payment to a payee, which will be paid to the taxation authorities.…
Do you any up to date information regarding VAT treatment on commission owed to individual non-VAT registered artists from galleries that may or may not be VAT registered themselves?
The legal and business situation discussed in the 1979 article posted…
Do I have to pay tax on the award or grant I have been given?
There continues to be no up to date and definitive answer or ruling to the question of whether prizes and awards will be deemed taxable…