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| 27 December 2007 | |
| I have never been asked this before and I looked this up so this confused me a little bit. This person I know is an independent contractor, so they go from place to place. They have no "real" place to meet clients or conduct business other than where they have been contracted to do work for, so do they need an occupational license. They are an S-Corp and file a Tangible return for FL. They file the Tangible using their home address. Am I missing something? | |
| 27 December 2007 | |
| Certain states requires licenses to practice different things. It depends on the state. What does your client do? | |
Bottom Line (talk|edits) said: | 27 December 2007 |
| Depends upon the county and municipality. Most cities and counties in FL require occupational licenses. Your client should contact the city and county where he lives (since this is the closest thing to an office that he has). It also depends upon his occupation. If a building contractor is located in Pinellas county, he needs a Pasco county occupational license to do work in Pasco county. The cost is usually small. I only pay $13.75/yr for an accounting service with less than 5 employees in Pasco county. | |
Donniecastleman (talk|edits) said: | 27 December 2007 |
| Does the dentist give discounts to Tax Almanac contributers? I need a lot of work done! | |
| 27 December 2007 | |
| so if you need the occupational license, and if you work in multiple counties, should you get them in all the counties and cities you work in? The sounds kinda of costly. | |
Bottom Line (talk|edits) said: | 27 December 2007 |
| Let me get this straight. He's a dentist that does not have an office and performs work in various counties. Where is his equipment? | |
| 27 December 2007 | |
| At the different offices he does work at. He would buy equipment that needs for each office and leave it there. But if he no longer is contracted at one office he would take his equipment with him. | |
| 27 December 2007 | |
| I think BL is talking about his DENTAL equipment. Like that horrific chair and those death drills? | |
Bottom Line (talk|edits) said: | 27 December 2007 |
| You're right. He can't throw the chair, X-Ray machine & spit bowl in the back seat of his car and take it to his next appointment.
Sounds like he's a "rent-a-doc" that does temporary work when a dental office is short-staffed. If that's the case, the dental office would have the occupational license. | |
| 27 December 2007 | |
| He's a specialist. He only performs like root canals. Forget which specialist he is. So he comes in 1 day week at certain offices to do his work. So does that mean he wouldn't have to file all those occupational licenses? | |
Bottom Line (talk|edits) said: | 27 December 2007 |
| I would guess no but to make sure you'd probably want to contact the county tax collector's office. That said, I've only recently heard of an occupational license audit. The City of St. Pete went door-to-door in a couple of low-end industrial parks. | |
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