Performing Artist Tax Parity Act (PATPA)

Support Middle-Income Performing Artists!

Over the last 30 years, wages and costs of living have increased across the board, but a provision in the tax code that allows performance artists to deduct qualified business expenses is outdated and obsolete.

The bipartisan Performing Artist Tax Parity Act (PATPA) bill will make critical, above-the-line business expense tax deductions available to a broader group of performing artists, moving the threshold from $16,000 to $100,000, or $200,00 for joint filers.

With the help of union members like you and our allies, middle-class performers will be able to make deductions that make sense!

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• Most performing artists have to spend their own money on necessary business expenses while trying for a job, but middle-income performers can't deduct it. The Performing Artist Tax Parity Act will fix that. Ask your representatives to support PATPA: https://bit.ly/3OJaoKB
   
• Self-tape equipment. Agents’ fees & commissions. Travel. These are just SOME of the business expenses middle-income performing artists can’t deduct from their taxes. The Performing Artist Tax Parity Act will fix that. Ask your representatives to support PATPA: https://bit.ly/3OJaoKB
   

• It's time to level the playing field for working actors and artists. Ask your representatives to support the bipartisan Performing Artist Tax Parity Act to bring performers’ deductible expenses into the 21st Century. https://bit.ly/3OJaoKB
   
• Most performing artists have to spend their own money on necessary business expenses while trying for a job, but middle-income performers can't deduct it. The Performing Artist Tax Parity Act will fix that. Ask your representatives to support PATPA: https://bit.ly/3OJaoKB
   
• Self-tape equipment,  Agents’ fees & commissions, Travel. These are just SOME of the business expenses middle-income performing artists can’t deduct from their taxes. The Performing Artist Tax Parity Act will fix that. Ask your representatives to support PATPA: https://bit.ly/3OJaoKB