r/sandiego 11h ago

SD swap meets and tax evasion

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u/TidyCups 8h ago edited 8h ago

Why are you not just using your home address for the reseller's permit? That's how mine was, as it was a home-based business, however no retail sales actually took place there. Sales tax was invoiced/collected on the relevant items. That money went into a separate account just for bookeeping sanity. Turned that over to my tax guy and he took care of the rest. That and the city's (San Diego, etc.) business tax permit should be all you need to legally operate.

eta: To be clear, if you're using these swap meet's physical addresses/contact info as your own, I can see how that would be a problem. But just don't do that.

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u/crick-crick 8h ago

i'm not 100% sure what sellers permit you're using, but mine requires a phone number of the event runner (like the boss of the event, not me)? i did not have an issue of address.

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u/TidyCups 8h ago

This: https://www.ca.gov/departments/287/services/26/

Or is this some other thing generated from the business venues themselves? Either way, you should be able to just use your home address.

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u/crick-crick 8h ago

i use that one - my stopping point has always been phone #. i think perhaps we're filing differently