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I don't know if any other artist have fallen for the South Carolina Business License trap or not when doing shows in SC. If you have then you know what I am referring to if not then be forewarned. I did one show in SC last year in April. I was told by the promoter I had to have a $18.00 business license. Ok I bought the license now what? Oh did I mention I must file every month even months prior to April before I had the license? Even if my sales were $0.00?
Well i am not one to read the fine print and I have never met an artist who does read the fine print. Artist think that rules don't apply to us creatives me included. So now guess what, I have a %*&%$#% Tax lien for January before I even had the %&^%#$ License. The amount is $2,500 an assed amount for sales I never generated because I did not even know I was going to be accepted to a show in SC at in January. In fact I had not even applied to a show in January.
So what is a lunatic like me to do? Get the %^$^&&% forms and waste my time and the SC dept or revenue employees time faxing 11 pages of forms to them to show I had $0.0 sales. But it gets better even though I did not have sales or even set foot in Sc in January of 08 I still have a tax lien that cannot be removed. which now shows satisfied for $0.0
To make matters even more stupid it will be on my credit report! Oh but contrare you ^%%$#^ tax man you have meet you match and he is a lunatic creative that will eat up your time with letters, emails, phone calls and faxes until you destroy this ^^%$%& evidence.
My actual sales were $300.00 for April which I paid $21.00 in taxes to SC for. Not to mention the fact that I paid $125.00 for the show and $47 in campground fees plus $18.00 in the license. After I paid all the fees taxes etc I netted a total of $89.00. This is not including gas money. We stood in the pouring down rain for 2 days to make $89.00
This is exactly what I am going to tell the judge in SC if they don't remove this ^$%%^$%^ Lien, because I will appeal it over and over again and then when I have exhausted that I will file a court hearing which is my right under the SC law. Oh wont this be fun to see how much time and money I can waste of the SC govt over $0.0 sales for January.
I bet this even will make the local News Small business artist appeals $0.0 Tax Lien. Well at least when they are interviewing me I will be wearing a shirt with my website across the front and back plus I will mention it in the interview.
Like the greatest creative mind of the 20th century Any Warhol once said "Everyone gets 15 minutes of fame"
~mike
Well i am not one to read the fine print and I have never met an artist who does read the fine print. Artist think that rules don't apply to us creatives me included. So now guess what, I have a %*&%$#% Tax lien for January before I even had the %&^%#$ License. The amount is $2,500 an assed amount for sales I never generated because I did not even know I was going to be accepted to a show in SC at in January. In fact I had not even applied to a show in January.
So what is a lunatic like me to do? Get the %^$^&&% forms and waste my time and the SC dept or revenue employees time faxing 11 pages of forms to them to show I had $0.0 sales. But it gets better even though I did not have sales or even set foot in Sc in January of 08 I still have a tax lien that cannot be removed. which now shows satisfied for $0.0
To make matters even more stupid it will be on my credit report! Oh but contrare you ^%%$#^ tax man you have meet you match and he is a lunatic creative that will eat up your time with letters, emails, phone calls and faxes until you destroy this ^^%$%& evidence.
My actual sales were $300.00 for April which I paid $21.00 in taxes to SC for. Not to mention the fact that I paid $125.00 for the show and $47 in campground fees plus $18.00 in the license. After I paid all the fees taxes etc I netted a total of $89.00. This is not including gas money. We stood in the pouring down rain for 2 days to make $89.00
This is exactly what I am going to tell the judge in SC if they don't remove this ^$%%^$%^ Lien, because I will appeal it over and over again and then when I have exhausted that I will file a court hearing which is my right under the SC law. Oh wont this be fun to see how much time and money I can waste of the SC govt over $0.0 sales for January.
I bet this even will make the local News Small business artist appeals $0.0 Tax Lien. Well at least when they are interviewing me I will be wearing a shirt with my website across the front and back plus I will mention it in the interview.
Like the greatest creative mind of the 20th century Any Warhol once said "Everyone gets 15 minutes of fame"
~mike
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