another craft fair question

[amyboomboom]

I am thinking about participating in a school craft fair at my son's school. What do I have to know about state taxes? Do I need to have some sort of certificate? Tax ID number?

I only plan on participating in this one craft fair, and not do this thing on a regular basis.

Any advise?

[PaperRapt]

I am sure each state is different. But generally speaking, I don't think they want to do the paperwork for a one time thing. If you were going into business to do this, then yes you would need to file for a sales license. The license is to collect and remit sales tax. In terms of income, you just add it to your gross income. You can always do a quick check to the state website, secretary of state, to find particulars.

Annette
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[Carol Shafer]

I am also going to sell my crafts one time this year in one of our local elementary schools. You are suppose to have a Tax ID number but the lady that is in charge told me not to worry about it as I'm only doing it this one time and the three yrs. she has been in charge of this no one has bothered about checking. She told me half the crafters have one and half don't. My husband said if I had to go to all that trouble for doing this one time it wouldn't be worth it. You're considered a business when you do that. Carol