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Protect Ticket Buyers
Clean up predatory and deceptive practices to protect the rights of fans.
Background
While Eventbrite works to set the right example, live event fans deserve fair, honest, transparent, and reliable ticket-purchasing experiences. Speculative tickets, predatory resales, deceptive practices, and exorbitant price gouging have no place in the live event ecosystem. That’s why Eventbrite is partnering with independent venues and artists to urge Congress to pass comprehensive live event ticketing reforms. You’ve got plans and deserve better.
Take action
1. Join us in telling your Members of Congress to cosponsor comprehensive, bipartisan legislation to thoroughly reform live event ticketing.
Ease Event Creator Tax Burdens
Fix burdensome new IRS reporting threshold for online services, including event ticket sales.
Background
Event creators and other online sellers face enough financial burdens while working to build followings, host successful events, and foster meaningful social connection. The last thing small businesses, entrepreneurs, and other event creators need is a new tax law that reduces the minimum IRS 1099-K reporting threshold for online sales of goods and services from $20,000 in annual payments and 200 transactions to just $600 and one transaction.
Take action
1. Join us in telling your Members of Congress to fix this burdensome requirement before the end of this year, in order to save you, your fellow creators, and other online sellers from unnecessary and confusing IRS reporting.
Foster Social Connection
Build a better understanding of social isolation and how shared in-person experiences can foster meaningful social connection.
Background
Eventbrite is convening best-in-class academic, nonprofit, and advocacy leaders to support event creators in hosting more socially-connected events, raise awareness, reduce the stigma of social isolation, and elevate social connection as a public health priority.
Through our multi-year Social Connection Project, which incorporates research, advocacy, and partnerships, Eventbrite is committing to fostering meaningful social connection through the power of live experiences.
Take action
1. We urge you to contact your member of Congress and voice your support for elevating social connection as a public health priority.
2. Share your story with Eventbrite.
We would love to hear from you about how fostering in-person social connections is important to you and your business.
Support Safe Gatherings
Stand up for policies that empower event organizers and support safe gatherings
Background
We’re committed to event safety. That is why we are empowering event creators with resources to make informed event safety decisions and advocate for common sense measures that support safe gathering.
Event safety is an important issue beyond the COVID-19 pandemic. New digital safety initiatives like Next Generation 9-1-1 will upgrade 911 technology by allowing people to share data like videos, images, and texts with 911 call centers. This will help facilitate rapid emergency response at live events if ever needed.
Join us in supporting digital safety initiatives like Next Generation 9-1-1 deployment that will help enable more secure experiences when we connect at live events.
Take action
1. We urge you to contact your member of Congress and voice your support of Next Generation 9-1-1 technology.
2. Share your story with Eventbrite. We would love to hear from you about your specific safe gathering needs so that we can help support them.
Resources
Eventbrite partnered with risk management and health experts to launch the Event Safety Playbook, a resource that empowers event creators to thoughtfully consider potential safety and security risks at an event. We continue to update the playbook with new information and you can use it for free here.
Share your story with Eventbrite
Eventbrite will continue to advocate on your behalf. We will have the biggest impact when we join together.
Share your story with us by clicking here.