Event Summary

Session #6: Wednesday, November 8^th ~ Tax Strategies

WALA Creative Entrepreneur Series @ THEARC
(Legal Issues for Creative Entrepreneurs)  

Presentation and Q & A with:
Benjamin Grosz and Benjamin Takis

"Pursuing your art as a business can be daunting, and one of the biggest challenges is understanding the tax laws. Between the many types of federal and state taxes that apply to your business, it is easy to make a mistake that can set back your business for years.

The presenters (who both have active experience in the arts in addition to practicing as tax attorneys), will provide an overview of the federal income tax, a guide to the different business structures you should consider, as well as more advanced federal tax issues relevant to artists in the Washington, DC area."

Benjamin Grosz is an associate with Ivins, Phillips & Barker, where he advises clients on a broad range of federal income, estate, and gift tax planning matters, as well as employee benefits issues. Before law school, Ben started his own financial planning business. Prior to that, he was a business manager at Capital One Financial Corporation, where he developed strategy and analysis for its credit card and banking businesses. His experiences in starting his own financial planning business and developing the business strategy for Capital One help him understand the needs of clients ranging from entrepreneurs to large corporations. Although lacking the talent to be a professional artist, Ben spent years singing with various choirs and has had the privilege to sing at the Kennedy Center and Wolf Trap, and the good fortune to participate in a singing “Tour de France” with one of his college choirs.

Benjamin Takis is the founding attorney of Tax-Exempt Solutions PLLC, a law firm specializing in tax, corporate governance, employment issues and business transactions for non-profit organizations and social entrepreneurs." Since beginning his practice in 2006, Ben has devoted his career to representing non-profit organizations and tax-exempt entities. Ben honed his skills as an associate at the premier Washington D.C. labor firm Bredhoff & Kaiser and the leading employee benefits boutique Groom Law Group. At Bredhoff and Groom, Ben represented some of the largest pension funds, healthcare trusts, and labor organizations in the country, along with public charities, lobbying groups, trade associations, and other non-profit organizations of all types and sizes.

Event Details

• Date

  November 8, 2017

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• Time

  7:00pm - 9:00pm

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• Venue

  THEARC: Town Hall Education Arts Recreation Campus
  1901 Mississippi Avenue SE
  Washington, DC 20020