"Derek Andrews" wrote in message
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The sales tax is probably the most visible issue. Every show I do (which
thankfully isn't many) I get customers complaining about having to pay
sales tax, or point blank refusing. I'm sure that most people who have
to collect this do so, but the craft show circuit I am into is full of
part-timers who don't sell enough to have to register.


Unless your governing body is exceptionally generous, you _must_ collect and
pay sales tax, except on one-time sales of personal property. You don't
have to have an EIN to pay tax in my state, they take it based on SSAN.

After a particularly busy feeding frenzy of purchasers a few years back, I
started rolling taxes into my prices and rounding to the quarter (favoring
me, of course). If I hadn't, my daughter suggested she would never help me
sell again. Since I enjoy shooting the breeze with other wood lovers more
than making change and bagging, I took her advice.