Taxing question

macmassey

I am in process of setting up my pro site. I am at the point of needing to do the tax thing. I live in Georgia. On the Smugmug site they refer to consulting with my state's taxing authority regarding how much I should charge for tax. But even after I find that out, I won't have any idea what state a person may order a photograph from, so how does that sales tax get figured on the spot at the time of sale? Do I only worry about Georgia because that's where I live? Thanks

Art Scott

macmassey wrote:

I am in process of setting up my pro site. I am at the point of needing to do the tax thing. I live in Georgia. On the Smugmug site they refer to consulting with my state's taxing authority regarding how much I should charge for tax. But even after I find that out, I won't have any idea what state a person may order a photograph from, so how does that sales tax get figured on the spot at the time of sale? Do I only worry about Georgia because that's where I live? Thanks

Are you self fulfilling or selling thru smugmug with smugmug doing the collecting of all monies????

If the latter it should not matter as you should look at SM as the Gallery dealer that is showing and selling for you and then paying you a commission on your work......which you will (should) recevie a 1099 for .................................
IANAL or tax specialist.......need to actually talk with one in your area of Georgia.

macmassey

Art Scott wrote:

Are you self fulfilling or selling thru smugmug with smugmug doing the collecting of all monies????

If the latter it should not matter as you should look at SM as the Gallery dealer that is showing and selling for you and then paying you a commission on your work......which you will (should) recevie a 1099 for .................................
IANAL or tax specialist.......need to actually talk with one in your area of Georgia.

Thanks for the feedback, Art. I am having Smugmug collect the money, so that makes it alot easier at this point in time.