014 - Attorney Shawn Bartley on How to Protect Your Studio, Get Paid, and Keep What You Earn

Shawn Bartley is a business lawyer in Maryland. In our discussion, he shares practical steps we can take to protect our music studios, collect payment, and minimize our tax burden. We discuss what to include in teacher and student contracts, what records we should keep in case we need to defend our businesses in a tax audit or in court, and we discuss some of the hard choices teachers have to make. Full show notes available at musicstudiostartup.com/episode014