The submission asks Ottawa to recognize that artists have long functioned as gig workers with irregular incomes that are often much lower than the national average
More than 5,500 people have signed a petition asking the federal government to ease artists’ tax burdens and create newThe Canadian Artists Network, a group representing about 2,200 senior-citizen artists, launched the petition in July, and said it submitted the results Thursday as part of its submission to prebudget consultations for the 2025 federal budget.
incomes that are often much lower than the national average. “Any kind of break that they can get at tax time would go a long way toward enabling them to continue working and creating for the benefit of all of us,” said Scott Walker, the Canadian Artists Network’s executive director.
Walker, whose work ranges across the performing arts, said he’d struggled with uneven taxation in the past because of the nature of his work. He watched his gross income rise from $25,000 one year in the late 2000s to $51,000 the next after writing and producing a pageant that year – only to be hit with a high tax bill for that fiscal year just as his income plummeted again.
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