Globally Mobile Creatives and Tax Residency: Why “One Level Below” Is the Smartest Strategy

Creative industries are built on movement and fluidity that’s often borderless. A shoot may shift location at short notice. A tour schedule might add additional stops and air miles to the calendar. A festival run often follows a press circuit. For many creative professionals and everyone working within the industry, international travel isn’t the exception but the operating model. 

Tax residency, however, doesn’t move with the same fluidity. Tax residency rules still recognise borders and take seriously whether visits are for work or leisure. And layered on top of this: increasingly data-driven tax systems, automatic exchange of financial information between jurisdictions, and tax residency rules that rely on detailed factual patterns.

So Richard Paul sat down with Daysium, a tax compliance platform that automates day counting and record-keeping for high net worth individuals, to understand how globally mobile creatives can navigate these two worlds and stay compliant. At Nyman Libson Paul, we have spent decades advising clients across film, television, theatre and music. And Richard’s central observation is simple:

Creatives are uniquely exposed to the risks of getting travel records wrong because their lives are both global and fast-moving. But the solutions are there, and they can be simple. 

Continue reading the full interview here.