Get a Vendor's Permit

What is a vendor's permit? 

A vendor's permit can be many different things depending on the state and how they have defined it.

So, in some states it is used as a permit for door to door sales people, others use it as a seller's permit, and yet other states use it as a street vendor license. 

When you hire us to obtain one, we will get you the correct one and appropriate for your type o f business industry.  



What is a Home Occupation Permit

A home occupation permit is required in some states if you do business out of your own home.

 Some states require both the Home Occupation Permit and the business permit.  In other states, only one or the other is required.

 So, a Home Occupation Permit is just a permit that allows you to operate your business out of your home observing local ordinances like for example having no more than a couple of UPS deliveries per day or not storing hazardous substances such as dangerous chemicals.  

If you purchase the business permit service from us, the Home Occupation Permit comes with it whether you need both or one or the other we obtain it for you for the same price.  


What is a Resale Certificate?

A resale certificate is part of the seller's permit.  A seller's permit is a tax id number that allows you to buy wholesale from suppliers and resell what you buy retail collecting sales tax.  You need the seller's permit do do both of these: buy wholesale or sell retail. 

So what is the resale certificate for?

You issue a resale certificate when you want to buy wholesale from a supplier.  When you do present it to the supplier, you in effect say to him or her that you certify that you hold a seller's permit number, which you enter on the certificate along with your business information. 

Why does the supplier wants a resale certificate?  

The supplier verifies that you hold a seller's permit and so he sells to you wholesale ( i.e., sells merchandise to you tax free).
You obtain it tax free because you will "resell," it.  Thus, the name "resale".

Do I need to pay to obtain a resale certificate?  

If you hire us to obtain a seller's permit, you don't have to pay for it because we provide one for free when we present you with the officially filed seller's permit. 


What is a Reseller's  Permit

A Reseller's permit is called "Reseller's ," because you can Resell e.g., merchandise you bought tax free (wholesale) and collect sales tax from your retail sales  so you can eventually turn these sums of sales tax to the state.  In addition, it functions as a wholesale permit or a seller's permit ( they are all the same license) so you can buy merchandise or anything that is subject to Reseller's tax without paying wholesale. It is another name for sales tax ID or seller's permit.  If you obtain one, you will be able to buy wholesale by issuing a resale certificate with the wholesale tax number to wholesale suppliers as well as sell retail, collect sales tax and remit it quarterly to the state. 



Reseller's permit vs. business permit?

A business permit is generally  a business tax registration that the government issues and allows you to operate your business in your type of business, in your county, city, and state.

Which type of permit you will need and the requirements vary depending on the state however, in 99% of the cases, all businesses need a business permit also called a business license, business tax registration, or home occupation permit.

Why Does The Government Requires a Business Permit? 

In addition to a flat annual fee ( usually about $50) a
business permit is required because  public health can be an issue with the business ( e.g., restaurant).

How do I know which business permit I need?

When you purchase the service from us, we obtain the one that fits your type of business. In fact, if you are a home business and you need both an home occupation permit and a busines permit, we obtain both for you for the price of one. 

Is a business license same as an LLC? 

An LLC is the business tax structure of the business and determines your liability and tax consequenses whereas a business permit give you the right to operate your type  of business at its location and jurisdiction.  

Keep in mind a business permit is not specific to what you do, as for example a liquor permit.  A business permit is a general business permit.

What happens if I do not have a business permit?

You will be fined and forced to obtain one otherwise the government will not let you operate your business.

We can find the applications, fill them out and register them for you in most cases.   

Here is what we will do for you:  

We will find out the exact permit you need, we will comlete it and file it.  
We will find out exactly if you need to pay any taxes in advance ( normally, anywhere from $0 to $50 but can be more). of the license, permit, and tax registration applications that need to be completed.

In addition to a general business permit, here are the most usual required business permits:
 
State tax ID number ( could be a state EIN or a sales tax ID)
Liquor licenses
Health department permits ( most of the time this is part of the general business permit)
State occupational Permit
Reseller's Permit ( seller's permit)
Business operations permit ( mainly same as the general business permit)
Zoning and land use permits ( that is unusual unless it is a new building)
Fire and police department permit ( only for brick and mortar stores)
Sales tax permit ( same as a seller's permit)
Wholesale permit ( seller's permit).