<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Every state has their own way of getting money from you. :-) Here in NC it's call a Business License.<div><br><div>
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<br><div><div>On Jun 4, 2011, at 8:38 AM, William Monroe wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">Hi Mike,<div><br></div><div>Yes, I have a Seller's Permit as well. That is the State TIN that I have to carry as well. So when you speak of a business license, you are referring to your Seller's Permit? I never equated the two. So in this case it appears we may be referring to the same thing in WI - a Seller's Permit. </div>
<div><br></div><div>William R. Monroe</div><div><br></div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 6:55 AM, Mike Spalding <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mike.spalding1@frontier.com">mike.spalding1@frontier.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">On 6/3/2011 9:57 PM, William Monroe wrote:<br>
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I'd be interested to know if Sole Proprieters have the option of acquiring a state TIN (EIN) vs. having a business license under which they then file sales and income taxes for the state. As I wrote before, anyone can purchase a business license if they WANT to, but, at least for an S-Corp, it is not required - perhaps because it IS required to have Federal and State TIN's<br>
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William,<br>
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I'm a sole proprietor in Wis. The piece of paper I'm required to keep current is called a Seller's Permit. It costs $10 for 2 years, renewable forever. When I applied for it, way back in the beginning of time, the state assigned me a Seller's Permit Number, which is my identification number for filing my state _sales_ tax returns. It is separate from my federal EIN, which identifies me for filing of both state and federal _income_ tax returns.<br>
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