Overseas workers paid overseas but placed in Canada?

[Venliau]

Hey guys, I own an art gallery and studio where we often have expressions of interest from overseas artists to work with out in house artists.

These people would be renting a space in our gallery, they range from oil painters, air brush artists and tattooers.

If they are commissioned to create a piece and paid into their overseas business account, but decide to create the art in my art space for that client what liability would I have?

 

[scylla]

Hey guys, I own an art gallery and studio where we often have expressions of interest from overseas artists to work with out in house artists.

These people would be renting a space in our gallery, they range from oil painters, air brush artists and tattooers.

If they are commissioned to create a piece and paid into their overseas business account, but decide to create the art in my art space for that client what liability would I have?

Assuming they are doing work for Canadian customers / clients, much of that sounds like illegal work.

In terms of liability, I think it's probably reputational (i.e. business reputation) more than anything else.

 

[Venliau]

Assuming they are doing work for Canadian customers / clients, much of that sounds like illegal work.

In terms of liability, I think it's probably reputational (i.e. business reputation) more than anything else.

Ok, so we have a really talented oil painter that wants to come and do a painting seminar for my artists, even if we pay him into his English bank account and he is paying his taxes in England this is illegal?

How does this differ from purchasing a product from that person and using it over here?

 

[bellaluna]

Correct me if I’m wrong, but if my interpretation is correct, the seminar seems ok to do without a work permit:

https://www.canada.ca/en/immigratio...foreign-workers/work-without-permit/arts.html

But if you enter some sort of employment relationship with the artist, then he’d need the WP.

 

[scylla]

Ok, so we have a really talented oil painter that wants to come and do a painting seminar for my artists, even if we pay him into his English bank account and he is paying his taxes in England this is illegal?

How does this differ from purchasing a product from that person and using it over here?

Seminars should be OK - that's training.

In your original post, you mentioned commissioned works (not seminars). That's a different kettle of fish than training. For example, if a tattoo artist from outside of Canada wants to come to Canada and tattoo people here - they need a work permit.

 

[Venliau]

Correct me if I’m wrong, but if my interpretation is correct, the seminar seems ok to do without a work permit:

https://www.canada.ca/en/immigratio...foreign-workers/work-without-permit/arts.html

But if you enter some sort of employment relationship with the artist, then he’d need the WP.

Ok, so we can have guys over for seminars but not commissioned work. Paying them to attend their seminar doesn’t count as like “teaching” work?

 

[Venliau]

Correct me if I’m wrong, but if my interpretation is correct, the seminar seems ok to do without a work permit:

https://www.canada.ca/en/immigratio...foreign-workers/work-without-permit/arts.html

But if you enter some sort of employment relationship with the artist, then he’d need the WP.

Oh I just read the article, thanks so much!