Why do we bother??!

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I'm sure the pros are. For us pub players we barely break even when all costs are taken into account.
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That's exactly my point. If your costs are £50 and you're getting paid £50 that £50 is actually closer to £80 as that's how much you would have to earn before tax in your day job to get £50 cash in your pocket.

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[quote name='Adrenochrome' timestamp='1416408332' post='2609890']
I'm sure the pros are. For us pub players we barely break even when all costs are taken into account.
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Break even? All I know is after a gig, I have at least $100.00 cash in my wallet that wasn't there before the gig. And I had fun earning that $100.00.

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[Adrenochrome]

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Break even? All I know is after a gig, I have at least $100.00 cash in my wallet that wasn't there before the gig. And I had fun earning that $100.00.
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As far as I understand it (and 2 of my cousin's are pro musicians) there are a huge number of things that can be claimed as expenses - CDs, jeans/T shirts to wear onstage, lessons (even fuel to get to lessons), equipment, having a PC to book gigs. The end result is that for a normal pub player, we never have to pay tax.

And of course, if I'd bought those jeans and CDs anyway, I've had a great time and have enough spare cash to repair my amp or buy my next set of strings without dipping into my [i]own[/i] money then I'm very happy