Sarah's Life

JSCCK - and related business bitchings

Ok, so Jess and I went to the county clerk's office today to have a chat with the people in the sales-tax department. Well, after a long discussion as to whether or not our potential start-up will need to pay sales-tax (she spent 10 minutes trying to convince us we did need to, when in the first 1 minute she revealed to any thinking person in the room that no, we did not, in fact, have to), she decided to just let us go with a handful of forms to "officialize" our business - a business with no set base of opperations (I guess you could count my locker at school, since that's where we're keeping our equipment and our schedule-book), a business with absolutly no retail issues (and it's only retail businesses that have to worry about salestax btw), but also a business that in almost every sense of the word can be defined as a volunteer opperation with a "mandatory donation" of $5/keyboard (which we've actually decided to make it - volunteer with a mandatory donation - thus NO taxes at all *whee*) - well, these forms happened to be the forms for a retail business opperating out of a commercial building.

*sighs* And people wonder why Colorado is plauged with budget issues - can we say incompetence at the basic level?? These are the people who are taking the checks from people who are supposed to be paying sales tax.

*grumble*

The good news - JSCCK is offically up and running. We'll be passing out flyers in the next few weeks, and with any luck we'll start getting appointments. *crosses fingers*