>>4306538most ''income'' statistics and estimates that you read on the internet are false.
most (if not all) photographers (famous or not) dont list 90% of their earnings on their businesses for the government to tax, especially in countries in and around EU, Russia and Asia where governments don't actively seek the source of your money (e.g you do a full on big scale project/shoot/job for someone and get paid like 15 grand for it and then randomly put that money in your bank account without labels or anything, and no one asks or questions you where you got that money from, so you get to have tax free +15 grand in your bank or in cash - also, thats why ''cash is king'' because you can do your thing without government stealing a percentage of YOUR hard earned money)
i know dozens of wedding/baptism photographers who earn close to a mil and some over a mil to two mil euro per season and they are not even famous or anything and their salaries on their businesses are listed as like e.g 50-80k a year. they only list a part of their earnings for each job (e.g if they get 10k, they make a receipt for 2k and only that 2k get taxed and the other 8k is pure untaxed profit) so basically government only taxes them for those 80k and the other 1M+ is pure untaxed profit.
for example, the photographer who owned the agency i used to work for, and has a deal with gq, vogue and bazaar has like 3-4 properties from where they operate, across the country and he brings in MILLIONS, out of which, probably only 20% is listed and taxed. and hes not the only big scale earner photog that i know. i know dozens more of people like that.
