[Leica] Question about photography business

[Robert Baron]

Lawyer Bob here.  I just got my 50-year pin but I know naught about what
you ask, except:  I have used a very good firm of CPAs to do my tax returns
each year and advice on these subjects is part of what they do.

I have never done my own tax returns nor do I know how.  I do believe that
I am the sole officer of a Subchapter S Professional Corporation (Robert D.
Baron Lawyer A Professional Corporation) and you may call me Mr. President
if you like.

You should engage someone in California to help you.  I am lucky that I am
helped here by the excellent firm until recently co-headed by OKCLUG
co-president Ken Carney, now retired, and it gives me great comfort to know
that in some small part my fees help him buy more camera gear.

--Bob



On Fri, Sep 21, 2018 at 2:40 PM Brian Reid <reid at mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
wrote:

> I've been taking pictures for money (mostly weddings and portraits) for
> 40 years. I've always had a day job; I'm not good enough to try to make
> a living at it. The money I make has paid for lenses and printers but
> has never paid the mortgage or bought food.
>
> Recent circumstances require that I become a registered business.
> Obviously it would be a sole proprietorship. I know lots about cameras
> and computers but nothing about business licensing.
>
> Does anybody have any suggestions as to where I should start, to make my
> little "Brian Reid Photography" venture be a registered business? Since
> I live in California I assume that I would register in California, but I
> am baffled by what I find with search engines.
>
>
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