Luova kasvu ja taiteilijan toimeentulo. Selvittäjä Tarja Cronbergin ...

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Publisher Date of publication
Ministry of Education and Culture 25.8.2010
Authors
Expert review by Dr Tarja Cronberg
Name of publication
Creative growth and artists’ income
Parts of Publication Memorandum Report + appendix
Abstract
Type of publication Reports of
the Ministry of Education and Culture, Finland
Contracted by Ministry of Education and Culture
Committee appointed on Dnro
4.12.2009 76/040/2009
In view of the favourable prospects in the creative economy both nationally and internationally, the Ministry of Education and
Culture and the Ministry of Employment and the Economy appointed expert reviewers to explore and propose measures for
enhancing conditions for creative economy business (Ministry of Employment and the Economy) and for measures improving
artist income (Ministry of Education and Culture) along with their other action. The Ministry of Education and Culture invited
Dr Tarja Cronberg to conduct the expert review.
Dr Cronberg’s report falls into six parts: Artistship in the creative economy; Artists’ position in the labour market; Artists’
income; Artists’ social security; Indirect action, Conclusions and proposals. There are altogether 11 proposals:
1 The concept of the creative economy should be expanded to cover the entire area of creative growth and art should be seen as
its basic research.
2 A new group should be included in the labour legislation: the self-employed. Their social security and taxation should be
made equal to that of salaried employees.
3 Artist policy measures should be taken to help raise artists’ art-related income from the present 50% to 70% of their overall
income by 2020.
4 The amount of artist grants should be increased so that the grant median comes up to €6,000.
5 The maximum VAT-free income from the sale of art should be raised from €8,500 to €15,000.
6 The artists’ unemployment allowance should be replaced by an unemployment grant, which in the first phase will be equal to
the labour market subsidy and which has to be applied for in the same way as the start-up grant. Measures should be taken to
explore possibilities for an artist salary.
7 A scheme should be devised for the taxation and social security of artists, which would take into account the fluctuation in
their cumulative incomes from one year to another.
8 The artist pensions scheme should be simplified and matters relating to artists’ pensions should be concentrated into the
Farmers’ Social Insurance Institution (Mela). The applicability of a German-style social insurance scheme in the Finnish
conditions should be explored.
9 The number of new supplementary artist pensions annually paid by the government should be raised to around 100.
10 Art purchases by businesses and public corporations should be granted a tax concession corresponding to that applied in art
sponsoring.
11 The principle that one per cent of public construction budgets is used to purchase art should be monitored more closely.
Incentives should be created for adherence to the principle.
Name and number of series Reports of ISSN 1799-0327 (Print) ISBN 978-952-485-929-5 (pbk.)
the Ministry of Education and Culture, Finland 2010:6 1799-0335 (Online) -L 1799-0327 978-952-485-930-1 (PDF)
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