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So I was talking a little bit about this in chat, but now I have a bit more info and stuff.
So my mom and grandmother have been in business/owned a store for like 30 years. Recently my grandmother is becoming senile. I really only have any contact with them during Really Big Craft Show in the fall, and this year mom decided to drop a bomb on me.
Basically that they've let thier sales tax ID # lapse over the past few years. Which means that they are *collecting* sales tax at these shows and then pocketing it.
Danger Will Robinson!
So after hearing this, I decided it wasn't a matter of if they get caught it's a matter of when, and I wanted to cover my rear and keep all my legal ducks in a row.
I filed paperwork with the state to get my own Sales Tax ID #. I filled out the paperwork in November and mailed it off. And waited. A month went by and I left to go visit in-laws. I came home and picked up all my mail. Nothing from the Tax office. Hmm.
Logged into the bank website and checked on my check. They had desposited it in early December and hadn't sent me any info about my paperwork!
With this info I sent them a nice email letting them know that I had send paperwork in on such and such date, and noticed that they cashed check # such and such on this date and please would they let me know what my Tax ID # was.
Fast forward to last week when I got a tax permit in the mail. It was dated to start on January 25th. Meaning they hadn't even gone through my paperwork at all until I raised heck about it.
But wait there's more!
Just got a letter in the mail today saying that I was late filing my monthly tax report. Wait what. Turns out because my paperwork said that my first day of business was December 1st, that I owed Tax for that month. And I can't pay taxes for my business without having an ID #. So I had to go log into thier online system and pay taxes for December, plus a penalty for filing late, even though they didn't inform me what my ID# was until last week.
Another funny that I noticed on my paperwork. When you first start up a business, you're on probation for 6 months. One of the stipulations for staying on after that 6 months is making sure that you have in-state sales. I'm really lucky that I said for mine to start in December. Normally I don't have *any* in-state sales until October, since most of my spring and summer sales are through Etsy.
I guess it's a good thing I'm picking up some spring shows this year. Oy vey.
Anyone else have "wading through red tape" stories?
So I was talking a little bit about this in chat, but now I have a bit more info and stuff.
So my mom and grandmother have been in business/owned a store for like 30 years. Recently my grandmother is becoming senile. I really only have any contact with them during Really Big Craft Show in the fall, and this year mom decided to drop a bomb on me.
Basically that they've let thier sales tax ID # lapse over the past few years. Which means that they are *collecting* sales tax at these shows and then pocketing it.
Danger Will Robinson!
So after hearing this, I decided it wasn't a matter of if they get caught it's a matter of when, and I wanted to cover my rear and keep all my legal ducks in a row.
I filed paperwork with the state to get my own Sales Tax ID #. I filled out the paperwork in November and mailed it off. And waited. A month went by and I left to go visit in-laws. I came home and picked up all my mail. Nothing from the Tax office. Hmm.
Logged into the bank website and checked on my check. They had desposited it in early December and hadn't sent me any info about my paperwork!
With this info I sent them a nice email letting them know that I had send paperwork in on such and such date, and noticed that they cashed check # such and such on this date and please would they let me know what my Tax ID # was.
Fast forward to last week when I got a tax permit in the mail. It was dated to start on January 25th. Meaning they hadn't even gone through my paperwork at all until I raised heck about it.
But wait there's more!
Just got a letter in the mail today saying that I was late filing my monthly tax report. Wait what. Turns out because my paperwork said that my first day of business was December 1st, that I owed Tax for that month. And I can't pay taxes for my business without having an ID #. So I had to go log into thier online system and pay taxes for December, plus a penalty for filing late, even though they didn't inform me what my ID# was until last week.
Another funny that I noticed on my paperwork. When you first start up a business, you're on probation for 6 months. One of the stipulations for staying on after that 6 months is making sure that you have in-state sales. I'm really lucky that I said for mine to start in December. Normally I don't have *any* in-state sales until October, since most of my spring and summer sales are through Etsy.
I guess it's a good thing I'm picking up some spring shows this year. Oy vey.
Anyone else have "wading through red tape" stories?
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