Esther Erlich | Hullabaloo (2025). See more at Fox Galleries .
Arts Tax Law Advocacy
Michael believes Australian society is enriched by having a vibrant cultural sector and has fought for fairer taxation and superannuation policies for the arts.
Taxation matters to artists, musicians, actors, writers and creative professionals throughout their careers. Patrons, supporters and collectors also benefit from incentives that enable them to contribute to their favourite causes.
Michael’s advocacy and expertise has been featured in the following selected articles and radio interviews:
- Julie Battisti, ‘Art & Taxes’ featuring Michael Fox, The Creative Kind Podcast August 2025
- Thuy On, ‘Income averaging: everything you wanted to know but were too afraid to ask‘, Artshub 3 June 2025
- The Jimmy & Nath Show, ‘We Commit Tax Fraud‘, featuring Michael Fox on 2Day FM, May 2025
- Reckon Case Study, ‘Michael Fox Arts Accountants & Valuer‘, 2024
- David Hunt, ‘The Business of Art‘, Art Hunter TV 2023
- Gina Fairley, ‘Put the big picture first at tax time, and the detail follows‘ Artshub 13 June 2023
- Michael Fox, ‘Make investments for art’s sake’, Accountants Daily, 17 June 2022
- Gina Fairley, ‘Tax Myth Buster: 6 quick fixes when getting it wrong’, Arts hub, 7 June 2022
- Michael Fox, ‘Morrison’s chickens come home to roost’, The Australian Financial Review, 18 May 2022
- Andrea Simpson, “Skin in the game: Why artists need to take control of their finances”, Arts Hub, June 18 2020
- Alice Dingle, “Create Australia’s Future”, Art Almanac, May 20 2020
- “Tax Effective Strategies for Investing in Art”, being held at Wagner Contemporary on Saturday, Art Month Sydney, 7 March 2020
- Killian Plastow, “How superannuation laws are strangling Australia’s art scene”, The New Daily, September 29 2019
- Michael Fox, “There’s an art to selling unpopular policies”, The Australian Financial Review, May 21 2019
- Michael Fox, “Arts policies go missing in 2019 election campaign”, ArtsHub, May 3 2019
- David Hunt, Neil D’Vauz, John O’Hara, “Sunday Arts Magazine”, Joy FM, February 11 2018
- Konrad Marshall, “’Success is what you leave the world’: Michael Buxton’s $26 million giveaway”, The Sydney Morning Herald, February 2 2018
- Penelope Benton, “Taxing Prize Money”, National Association for Visual artists, July 31 2017
- Michaela Boland, “Investment: art market painted into a corner”, The Australian, June 20 2016
- Andrew Taylor, “The art of retirement just got depressing with tax rules on collections”, The Age, June 4 2014
- Sally Patten, “SMSF art rules should be delayed, says valuer”, The Australian Financial Review, March 24 2014
- Michaela Boland, “Art loses its appeal to super funds”, The Australian, October 17 2013
- Sally Patten, “Art is hung drawn and quartered”, The Australian Financial Review, February 18 2011
Michael is a guest lecturer at the College of Design and Social Context, School of Media and Communication, RMIT.