[SGVLUG] Biz in Pasadena

[Alan Gruskoff]

As I have a Sole Proprietor Business License in Pasadena, I have some 
clues.  There is a $138 per year fee for a Business License in Pasadena. 
First, they will charge you $29 to send a clerk over to inspect your 
premises when you get a license. You then run an Ad stating you have a 
new business in the Pasadena Weekly ($35?).  You can then get a business 
checking account. Wachovia on Colorado at Arroyo is very small business 
friendly.

You get money.

Where did that money come from? Its either from an employer or a 
customer (unless a gift). If from a customer, you are in business, Baby! 
That business is a "home business" unless you have a brick & mortar 
address. I am just explaining, not taking a side.

*Alan Gruskoff*
http://performantsystems.com

> It occurred to me that maybe someone here may know something
>     about this:
>
>     I have a personal web site and blog at http://1134.org.  A few
>     years ago, I signed up for Google Adsense, and they put about
>     four little text ads on the side of my blog page. Overall, it
>     makes me just about enough money to cover the cost of hosting
>     the site.
>
>     Now the city of Pasadena is claiming that this is a 'home-based
>     business' and saying I have to get a business license and pay
>     them a tax on the untold millions that I'm evidently making
>     of this Internet thingy.
>
>     Has anyone else here dealt with something like this?


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