Consulting competence for the arts and entertainment sector

Comprehensive advice for companies, self-employed professionals, and freelancers

Whether museum or gallery, radio station or production company, artist or entertainer, large company or lone wolf, operating nationwide or internationally: ETL is the ideal partner for small and medium-sized companies, self-employed professionals, and freelancers in the arts and entertainment sector.

We offer all company-relevant consulting services from a single source and support you in all tax, legal, business, organizational, and financial aspects in all phases of your business from start-up and expansion to company succession planning.

Examples of our extensive range of consulting services include optimizing foreign artists’ contracts with the aim of minimizing tax withholding, drafting optimum contracts with regard to copyright law, and tax representation vis-à-vis the tax office in questions of offsetting losses (“hobbyists”). We support artists in word and deed, no matter whether it concerns small business regulations, reduced sales tax rates, royalty statements, or the artists’ social security fund. And galleries, museums, and event organizers can obtain customized insurance packages at attractive conditions from ETL.