Mints, royalties, primaries, secondaries, dealer-vs-investor classification, and Schedule C optimization for full-time creators. The CPA team your gallery accountant secretly calls when something on-chain breaks.
Selling your own work, taking commissions, generating royalties — you're a self-employed business in the eyes of the IRS. We elect Schedule C, deduct studio expenses, and quarterly-pay your way through the year.
Buying and holding NFTs you didn't create. Treated as collectible capital assets — long-term gains capped at 28% (collectible rate), short-term at ordinary income.
Most artists discover at tax time that they have ten thousand dollars of royalty income they never claimed because OpenSea, Blur, and Foundation each report differently — and most don't generate a 1099.
Our system pulls royalty events from every contract you've ever deployed and aggregates them into one Schedule C-ready ledger.
Begin royalty auditSquare-footage-prorated rent for studio space, even if it's a corner of your apartment.
sch C · line 20iPad, Mac, monitors, drawing tablets — Section 179 same-year expensing up to $1.16M.
sec 179 · sch CAdobe, Procreate, Cinema 4D, AI tools, font licenses — fully deductible.
sch C · line 22Every mint transaction's gas cost is part of the cost basis or COGS for that piece.
cost basisOpenSea, Foundation, Manifold platform fees are deductible against royalty income.
sch C · line 17Travel to exhibitions, NFT.NYC, conferences — flights, hotels, 50% of meals deductible.
sch C · line 24Self-employed health-insurance deduction reduces AGI directly — full premium amount.
sch 1 · line 17Up to $69K per year tax-deferred in a one-person 401(k) for solo artists.
retirement deduct.Books, prints, museum memberships — research material is a real business expense.
sch C · line 22If you split sales with collaborators, those payouts reduce your gross — but require 1099-NEC.
sch C · line 11Smart-contract development costs (Solidity engineer, audit) capitalized over 36 months.
amortizable assetElectric, internet, phone — prorated by studio square footage for home-studio artists.
sch C · line 25Drop your wallet, we'll pull every primary sale, secondary royalty, and mint cost-basis event across every marketplace. Most artists discover $5K–25K in unreported royalty income.
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