The E-Book
LLC, S-Corp, or Loan-Out?
You made a beat, sold it, and somebody actually paid you. You booked a show and got handed cash at the door. Your distributor dropped a royalty payment into your account. Congratulations - you're not just an artist anymore. You're a business. The IRS thinks so too, whether you filed a single piece of paper or not.
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What’s Inside
Plain English. No Tax-Speak.
Written for artists, not accountants — then sourced straight from the official record, every claim cited.
1 · Chapter 1 - The Default: You're Already a Business
If you make money from your music - selling beats, getting paid for shows, distribution royalties, mixing for other artists - and you… Read the free version →
2 · Chapter 2 - What an LLC Does (and Doesn't Do)
The one thing every artist gets wrong about an LLC Most artists think forming an LLC means "now I pay business taxes" or "now I save on… Read the free version →
3 · Chapter 3 - The S-Corp Election: When the Math Starts Working for You
You can keep your LLC and still change how the IRS taxes it. Read the free version →
4 · Chapter 4 - The Loan-Out Corporation
What a "loan-out" actually is A loan-out corporation is a corporation you own that gets hired for your work instead of you being hired… Read the free version →
5 · Chapter 5 - The 20% QBI Deduction (a Bonus That Touches All of This)
The short version If you make money from your music as your own business - not as an employee, not through a C corporation - you may get… Read the free version →
6 · Chapter 6 - How to Choose: The Income Ladder
You don't pick a structure off a feeling. Read the free version →
Why Trust It
Every fact is pulled straight from IRS.gov & the California FTB and cited — a Sources page in the back lets you check every claim — then reviewed by a vetted CPA with 30+ years working with artists. Education, not tax advice — the version nobody hands you on the way in.
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