CWA Management

Cecile Glunt, our Director of Government Relations, is attending the Amsterdam Dance Event this week.
This is a five-day electronic music conference with over 2,200 artists attending.
Cecile participated in a session involving taxation from multiple countries.
She specifically talked about Central Withholding Agreements.

Below is Cecile with Mary Croghan, CFO of Liaison Artists of San Francisco:

We don’t know if Cecile signed up to be in any dance contests.
If anyone finds out, please let us know how she does.

Jackie and I just returned from the Western Arts Alliance 2015 Conference. This was our first time to Vancouver in many, many years. SPECTACULAR city! The conference was much larger this year than in the past. Dan Smythe from the IRS gave an excellent talk on Central Withholding Agreements.

Last week I had the opportunity to attend the Consortium of Eastern Regional Theaters.
The two-day event was held at the historic Thayer Hotel at West Point. This was my first visit to The United States Military Academy. There were a lot of very large people walking,  jogging or running around wearing fatigues. I heard a lot of people say “Yes sir!” or “Yes ma’am!” I found myself quickly saying that also.

Jackie and I had the opportunity to be in NYC and see our client, legendary drummer Ginger Baker perform. The show is called Ginger Baker’s Jazz Confusion. The lineup includes Pee Wee Ellis on sax, bassist Alec Dankworth and percussionist Abass Dodoo. The house was standing room only and the crowd left thrilled. Prior to the show, Ginger and I almost talked about taxes. You can see how excited he was. He said something to the effect that I was a “sure cure for insomnia.”

Here are a couple of photos of Ginger performing that night:

Photos by Bobby Bank, Photographer of the Superstars

Ft. Lauderdale is one of my favorite cities. If I didn’t live in Orlando, I’d probably live there. NAPAMA held their annual Agents and Managers Retreat the past few days. This was my first experience with NAPAMA. This is an incredible organization of very friendly peers trying to help each other in their profession. They were nice enough to let me talk for about an hour about CWAs and the IRS – while occasionally glancing at the Atlantic Ocean…

St. Paul Minnesota was the home of this year’s conference. I have so much fun spending time with the folks at the conference. They had the largest group of attendees ever. These folks understand CWAs and 30% withholding very, very well. What a pleasure to talk with them about the latest happenings in the world of CWAs.

I just returned home from my first trip to Palm Springs. I would be very happy to live there.
The event was the inaugural Personal Managers Interchange hosted by the National Conference of Personal Managers.
I had an opportunity to meet Ken Kragen, the man behind “We Are the World” and “Hands Across America.”
What a truly genuine guy.

Miami Beach is amazing. If you have not been there in a while, please make plans to go. Jackie and I drove down for our first visit to Ultra Music Festival. Normally we are not late nighters. Ultra is one of those places that my college fraternity brother, Fitz used to say, “If it ain’t all night, it ain’t all right.”