07-28-2007, 11:35 AM
[quote davester]This is a new gallery and this is their first big show, so they don't have much experience with the sales tax thing......
You are "cruisin for a bruisin" here. If they haven't got the sale tax thing worked out they shouldn't be in business. While I won't go so far as to suggest you are going to get scammed, it sounds more like clueless enthusiastic amateurs, the art business is full of difficulties for artists and even more so for women artists. Assuming these are people that you want to work with, why not try and point them to getting a decent tax advisor.
Once you get associated with sales tax from a particular gallery (the gallery is doing the selling), then who knows but the tax man might come after you for all the gallery's outstanding sales tax... Heed ALL the warnings above especially the commission one.
(my wife's been in art for 25-30 years)
You are "cruisin for a bruisin" here. If they haven't got the sale tax thing worked out they shouldn't be in business. While I won't go so far as to suggest you are going to get scammed, it sounds more like clueless enthusiastic amateurs, the art business is full of difficulties for artists and even more so for women artists. Assuming these are people that you want to work with, why not try and point them to getting a decent tax advisor.
Once you get associated with sales tax from a particular gallery (the gallery is doing the selling), then who knows but the tax man might come after you for all the gallery's outstanding sales tax... Heed ALL the warnings above especially the commission one.
(my wife's been in art for 25-30 years)