Unfortunately, it�s also probably the most confusing thing to do without help.

Your ultimate goal in getting legal is obtaining a Sales Tax ID. Why? Because in about 95% of the States in the US, you can�t work with legitimate Wholesale Distributors without one.

You see, a genuine Wholesale Distributor does not charge you Sales Tax on the products they sell to your business. That�s because they know you are going to re-sell those products to your customer, the Retail Consumer. Sales Tax can�t be collected twice. So, the Wholesale Distributor isn�t required to charge the Sales Tax to you.

However, you are required to collect Sales Tax for your State from your customer.

For that reason, Wholesale Distributors are required to have proof in their files that anyone they sell to without charging Sales Tax (you, for example) is licensed to collect that Sales Tax from the Retail Consumer.

In other words, if you can�t prove to the Wholesaler that you are licensed to collect Sales Tax, the Wholesaler cannot sell to you.

Welcome to the Business World. :o)

To make this little game even more fun, each State, and most times each County and Town Government, work the process of getting Legal a bit differently, depending on where you live.

Some States call the Sales Tax ID a �Seller�s Permit� (California, for example). Some call is a Resale Certificate. Some bundle it with other paperwork known by different names.

Most States and Counties have web sites where they claim to publish all the information you need. Some of those sites are so twisted and disjointed that trying to get any coherent information out of them makes you feel like someone is wringing your brain out like an old sponge.

Here at Worldwide Brands, Inc., (Publishers of The Drop Ship Source Directory) our Customer Service department gets emails and calls asking for help with this process all the time. We help as much as we can, but it�s impossible for us to keep track of all the details of all the State and Local Governments in the US, and what their requirements are.

When I write articles, they are almost always articles containing general information that I feel will help people in their Ecommerce businesses. There are very few (very few!) times that I have ever written an article that talks about just one company, and how I think it can help you.

This is one of those rare times.

We have recently partnered with Natalie Williams, creator of a web site called New Online Business.

I�ve known of Natalie for a long time; probably well over a year. I would come across something from one of her Ebusiness web sites occasionally and think, �that�s good stuff�I should call her and let her know how much I like her material!�

Well, business being what it is (running around with your hair on fire all the time!) I never did contact Natalie. Thank goodness she recently contacted me. :o) She asked me to take a look at New Online Business and see if there was anything there that I thought our site visitors could benefit from. When I did, I was very happy to have done so.

Natalie�s site is dedicated to helping new Internet Businesses get their legal paperwork done quickly and properly, among other things. It�s an excellent site.

It�s also our kind of web site. She offers wonderfully detailed and complete help for a very reasonable fee. However, she also offers FREE information so that you can do the work yourself without her help, if you choose to. It�s harder and takes longer, of course, but she tells you how. To us, offering help for free is the mark of a very honest businessperson.

Her New Online Business site actually helps you at your local Government level with exactly what you need to get your business up and running in a completely legal way.

The site also contains a wide variety of other tools, information and resources for the new business owner.

That�s a tremendous thing; I�ve never found this kind of genuine help anywhere else on the Internet. It�s something that I wish had been available when I first started my own Internet Business, years ago.

So, the purpose of this particular article is simply to pass along a resource that has excellent FREE information, and phenomenal one-on-one help that�s very reasonably priced.

That�s something you don�t come across every day on the Internet!

You can find more information on this great resource at www.worldwidebrands.com/NewOnlineBiz.htm.

Chris Malta

Founder/CEO

Worldwide Brands, Inc.

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