[pianotech] business license?

[Roger@Integra.net]

Gary,
A number of years ago there was a piano retail company located inside one of 
our mega malls. I was asked to perform several floor tunings but couldn't 
get the owner to pay my bill. I inquired with the local city license 
department to find out the name of the owner. This retail company had no 
city or state license. I called the state agency to inform them of the 
situation and within a day or two the state seized his assets and shut him 
down. The incident created some local press and we never heard from him 
again. The mall operators had egg on their face when they discovered that 
they didn't check up on the legitimacy of their retailers. I consider any 
businessperson without a business license a fly-by-night entity. A license 
is a means to contribute to society via paying business and occupation taxes 
like the rest of us. I can't imagine any state in the union where a business 
license isn't required by some level of government entity. You have an 
unfair advantage if you don't have a license.
Roger Gable

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gary" <gmcc at charter.net>
To: <pianotech at ptg.org>
Sent: Friday, June 03, 2011 12:18 PM
Subject: [pianotech] business license?


> I've just acquired a large church contract and they're asking me about a 
> business license.  I've done this almost 40 yrs and haven't been asked 
> that before.  How many of y'all have a business license?
> gary
>