Is the title clickbaity? Yes, because we need everyone's attention here:
Turnover Tax is a type of tax that almost all freelance creatives qualify for.
As long as you stay under a R1 million in turnover, you will pay a ludicrously low tax rate.
Changing to Turnover Tax has been life-changing for Lucas and me, and we want to share this knowledge with you.
To that end, we've interviewed our tax guy, Michael Rushby of GalbraithRushby, about the ins and outs of Turnover Tax. How to work out if you qualify, what you have to reports (sooo much simpler than normal tax), and how much you'll save.
If you are a freelancer and you're not on Turnover Tax, do yourself a favour and listen to this episode. If you want to do someone you know a favour, please spread the word by sharing the episode link. Creatives are struggling out there. If there's a way to pay less tax, grab it!

Full disclosure: In a stunning display of business savvy, we have worked out a deal with Michael (our tax guy in case your reading comprehension is poor). For every new Turnover Tax client his practice gets, we get an astonishingly token finders' fee. If thing go really well, we may be able to fill up our cars. Once.

So if you want to talk to Mike (I'm not sure we're on a Mike basis yet, but it makes him seem approachable, right?) just follow this link and get in touch with him. Mention the interview if you remember. 👍

We've been on a break for about a YEAR, but we're back for Season 2, starting with a long-overdue catchup with Tessa Kleingeld, owner and admin of The Resource and The Resource Creative Forum.

Tessa catches us up with what's been going on in the creative freelancing world, the changes and trends she's been seeing in the groups, and the recently activated mentorship programme.

She also gives us some great advice (some of it quite sobering) about building a community, especially on Facebook. What it takes, how it works, and what you can expect to get out of it (because if you put years of work into building something and expect no return on it, you're a better person than I am).

Finally, I'll be using some of Tessa's tips as I slowly build The Podcasting Guild of South Africa, a Facebook group for South African podcasts to chat, share information and resources, and generally do what we can to accelerate podcasting to in South Africa.

If you're into podcasting, or if you're in a parallel discipline like audio engineering, please feel free to join the group and say hi.

We're very excited to be back for a brand new year and a brand new episode of the The Resourcecast.
In this episode we chat to Gabriele Gabba of 1on1artschool.com, an innovative online illustration and art school with a model we've never seen before.
Gabriele has 10 years of experience in art and animation for game and animated movie development, and he shares his insight into the industry :

• How the industry works.
• How to shut out the world and go into the "Dragonball Z gravity chamber" to rapidly improve your skills.
• Why diplomas and other certifications are almost entirely unnecessary to get work.
• The unnecessary crime of student debt.
• Terrifying yourself into action by putting your savings on the line to improve your skills.
• Taking a day for self-enrichment, and his journalling habit.
• AND MUCH MORE.

Note: In the conversation, Lucas recommends the book "The Visual MBA" by Jason Barron. Check it out.