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<blockquote data-quote="Krs_2007" data-source="post: 367177" data-attributes="member: 12948"><p>OK, I think I am getting caught up in my shorts and overthinking this whole thing.</p><p></p><p>Scenario:</p><p></p><p>I take sports pictures, upload to Smugmug for parents to view. These are small shots with logo. I have a parent that wants to order full size pictures without the logo so I modified my site to sell and control the price list. My lack of knowledge has me hanging up on the whole tax issues.</p><p></p><p>- Do you setup a business first or should you figure out of if what you have will sell?</p><p>- What type of business is appropriate for selling photo's? (sole proprietor, LLC ( which LLC ))</p><p>- Can you file this type of activity with your current personal taxes?</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>My plan is to eventually create a business and keep it separate from my personal stuff, but there is only a few months left in the year and not sure the profits would be there to make any significant write offs. I know I can make up to 600.00 without reporting.</p><p></p><p>I have the price list setup to make a little profit on the print sales and digital downloads, so I would like to see if this approach is good enough to test the waters so to speak.</p><p></p><p>As far as the business my goal is order prints on the side through Nations, but Smugmug doesn't allow that and I need something quick before I loose the sale. I have thought about just putting them on a CD/Flash Drive and selling for one price, but that creates some overhead and will require a little more time.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Thoughts on this would be appreciated, I want to stay small for now due to my hectic job for now, but want to really push it next year.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Krs_2007, post: 367177, member: 12948"] OK, I think I am getting caught up in my shorts and overthinking this whole thing. Scenario: I take sports pictures, upload to Smugmug for parents to view. These are small shots with logo. I have a parent that wants to order full size pictures without the logo so I modified my site to sell and control the price list. My lack of knowledge has me hanging up on the whole tax issues. - Do you setup a business first or should you figure out of if what you have will sell? - What type of business is appropriate for selling photo's? (sole proprietor, LLC ( which LLC )) - Can you file this type of activity with your current personal taxes? My plan is to eventually create a business and keep it separate from my personal stuff, but there is only a few months left in the year and not sure the profits would be there to make any significant write offs. I know I can make up to 600.00 without reporting. I have the price list setup to make a little profit on the print sales and digital downloads, so I would like to see if this approach is good enough to test the waters so to speak. As far as the business my goal is order prints on the side through Nations, but Smugmug doesn't allow that and I need something quick before I loose the sale. I have thought about just putting them on a CD/Flash Drive and selling for one price, but that creates some overhead and will require a little more time. Thoughts on this would be appreciated, I want to stay small for now due to my hectic job for now, but want to really push it next year. [/QUOTE]
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