[pianotech] business license?

[Gary]

Well Roger, I certainly contribute to society by paying my state and 
federal taxes.   As I said, there's no tax on service work here, and I 
don't have a shop or sell parts.
I am not good at business at all, but    I will follow up on this.

On 6/3/2011 4:26 PM, Roger at Integra.net wrote:
> 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
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