A self-employed tattoo artist, who works in my studio, needs a letter of employment in order to rent a flat. Is there some way I (as owner of the studio) can help with this?

Hi Ryan, thanks for your question. 

We’ve asked around on this for you. The advice we have had back is for your artist to contact their accountant (if they have one) for proving of self-employed earnings or to ask how they could proceed. Some more advice would be for you to just write a letter for your artist – as the owner of the business – to say your artist has been working self-employed for you for X many years/months now and has consistently earnt X amount on average. Something along those lines. Just to show they are ‘technically’ self-employed, but self-employed under your business. 

Hope that helps!