My new accountant, while looking at me as if I was a puppy, said: "Signora, you shouldn't take care of your students' business, but your own."
He has clearly no idea whom he was talking to.
Anyway: we have a verdict, data at hand.
For my niche activity, that has slowly, yet constantly increased for the past ten years of online presence and of its current tax regimen (I would like to remind myself that),
but that has currently reached the ceiling of available time and energies of its very, very single owner and all-aspects-runner,
the solution would be, from now on, according to said man,
that I work every available hour at its full price - only.
I must follow such diet strictly for the entire second half of 2024 and then see whether I can survive, or else must close my business (or radically change it, by stopping teaching individually - as already announced).
I've tried to explain to him that I am the maximum living authority in the world about a crucial aspect of an art form that UNESCO recently claimed to be immaterial Patrimony of the Humanity: he didn't care, and said that so does the Italian government.
If I am luxury, and niche, I should be paid as such.
