Amy wrote: “I want to sell homemade crafts from my house, online and at craft shows. I want to make seasonal crafts like tomato cage witches and angels.”
Hi Amy, congratulations on Amy's Crafts! Handmade baby blankets, bags, and pet beds make treasured gifts, and craft fair shoppers love meeting the person behind the stitches. Your first stop is the Oklahoma sales tax permit: it makes your sales legal and your wholesale buying tax-free with a resale certificate. In this answer you will find the business structure, the tax registrations, and the local and industry licenses for Amy's Crafts, plus a short recap at the end.
Tomato cage witches and angels sound like the kind of thing people buy on sight in October, and Oklahoma treats every one of them as a taxable retail sale. That makes a seller's permit step one, whether you sell from your porch, online or at a craft show. Show organizers routinely ask for it at the booth application, and it lets you buy fabric, paint and wire at wholesale with a resale certificate. Keep receipts for supplies, since they are your cost records at tax time. If shoppers will come to your home, look into home-business zoning first, and a DBA for Amy's Crafts is the next sensible registration.
By the numbers: Banks, insurers, and tax forms will ask for your industry code. For a homemade craft business it is NAICS 314999 (All Other Miscellaneous Textile Product Mills). That makes 6 items on your list.
Tip: Keep a simple inventory list so you know which items sell out at fairs and which to retire.
To recap: Amy's Crafts in Inola, OK needs a sales tax permit, an LLC, a DBA, an EIN, a business license, and children's product safety certification. With the paperwork done, the fun part begins: serving your first customers.
We can file your seller's permit and the other registrations for you: start here.
All Businesses need a(n) , Inola business tax id registration (business license).
 All Businesses that use a business name to trade that is other than the surname and first name of a sole proprietor or a fictitious business name other than the LLC or Corporation legal name need a(n) Rogers County  DBA ( doing business as ) fictitious business name. Â
  On the other hand you may also need seller's permit if you sell merchandise that is taxable.  (A.K.A OK seller's permit, state id, wholesale, resale, reseller certificate).
   In addition you will need a federal and a state EIN if you will hire employees. I.e., a OK Federal Tax Id Number and a(n) OK  State Employer Tax Number Â
   Instead of filing an Assumed Trade Firm business name ("DBA" Doing Business As) in Inola, set up a coporation in OK  or set up a(n) OK LLCÂ
Cheree wrote: “I will sell crafts and cold drinks at the local pool rec center. I will resell towels, sunscreen, hair ties and goggles from a store, and make my own earrings, small home decor signs and hand painted flowerpots with flowers inside.”
Hi Cheree, Sunshine Things sounds like a promising venture. Sewing at home keeps costs low, and holiday fairs deliver crowds of gift buyers in a single weekend. The New Mexico gross receipts tax registration (CRS number) comes first here, because it is what lets you collect sales tax and buy inventory wholesale. In this answer you will find the business structure, the tax registrations, and the local and industry licenses for Sunshine Things, plus a short recap at the end.
New Mexico handles this through a gross receipts registration, which is the closest thing to a seller's permit, and it covers everything on your table: the towels, goggles, hair ties, sunscreen, cold drinks, and your own earrings, signs and painted flowerpots. Buying resale goods at a regular store means you pay tax on them, so once registered, buy from wholesale suppliers with a resale certificate instead. A pool is a managed space, so you will need permission from whoever runs the rec center, and they may have rules about food and drink. The clink of ice in the cooler is the sound of your first sale.
Tip: Research children's product safety and tracking label rules before selling items meant for babies.
To recap: Sunshine Things in Rio Rancho, NM needs a sales tax permit, an LLC, a DBA, an EIN, a business license, and children's product safety certification. With the paperwork done, the fun part begins: serving your first customers.
Here's How to Get Your OK Seller's Permit and Other permits and Registrations You May Need.
OK Seller's Permit, LLC, DBA, Licenses & Tax IDs Requirements:
Start with a Connecticut sales and use tax permit. A thrift and consignment shop sells taxable goods to the public, so you must collect sales tax, and consigned items count as your sales too.
• Trade name: a DBA if you operate under a shop name as a sole proprietor, though an LLC would separate the shop's debts from your own. • EIN: useful for banking and required once you hire anyone. • Local business license and zoning approval for the Bridgeport storefront, plus any certificate of occupancy for the space. • Written consignment agreements with each seller, spelling out the split and the holding period. • Employer accounts for unemployment and withholding if you add staff.
Secondhand dealer rules sometimes apply to jewelry or electronics, so ask us before stocking those.
In Mississippi you would register for a sales tax permit. That registration is what lets you hand wholesalers a resale certificate, so you buy inventory without paying sales tax on it, and it also obliges you to collect tax on sales to Mississippi customers.
As a sole proprietor you can run under your own name, or file a DBA if you want a brand name on your website and invoices. Many wholesalers also ask for an EIN, which keeps your Social Security number off paperwork. Check whether your town wants a local privilege or business license even for a home-based online shop. If you will sell into other states in volume, you may owe sales tax registration there too. An LLC is optional but worth considering once sales grow, and we can file every piece of this for you.
Your cosmetology license covers the services you perform, but selling products is a separate matter. In Ohio you need a vendor's license, since you will be collecting sales tax on every bottle and tool sold to a client.
That same vendor's license lets you buy product from distributors using a resale certificate, so you stop paying tax at the wholesale counter. If you work from a salon booth, ask the owner whether sales run through their register or yours, because that decides whose license is used. Add an EIN, and an LLC or DBA if you want a brand name on your invoices. Your contractor license does not figure into retail, so unless you sell in a store you lease, a local business license is the only other piece. We can file the vendor's license and EIN for you.
Sales & Use Tax Rate Changes Effective January 1, 2021
Under Oklahoma law, state Sales Tax (get Seller's Permit) must be charged and collected on all transfers of title or possession of tangible personal property for valuable consideration that occur within this state.
The Sales Tax (get Seller's Permit) is also levied on certain services that are provided in this state.
If the transaction occurs within the boundaries of a county or municipality that also levies a Sales Tax (get Seller's Permit) , the applicable county or municipal Sales Tax (get Seller's Permit) must also be charged and collected.
Oklahoma State Sales Tax (get Seller's Permit) is levied at 4.5 percent of the gross receipts from the sale or rental of tangible personal property and from the furnishing of specific services, including printing and advertising (except in newspapers, periodicals, and on billboards, as well as any advertising through the electronic broadcast media, including radio, television and cable television), transportation and auto parking, admissions, lodging and meals, telephone service and the furnishings of other public utilities, such as electricity and natural gas, with the exception of water.
State Sales Tax (get Seller's Permit) does not apply to electricity or natural gas utility bills for residential property but remain subject to any applicable municipal and county taxes in effect at the time of sale.
The furnishing of natural or artificial gas and electricity for commercial use, such as retail stores, warehouses, etc, is subject to state, city and county Sales Tax (get Seller's Permit) . Natural gas and electricity used directly in the manufacturing process is exempt if the manufacturing company holds an exemption certificate.
First decide on a business structure Homemade Crafts as a Sole Proprietor, LLC/Corp, or Partnership.
✔ Step 2 All Homemade Crafts Businesses need a , Business tax registration also called an occupation business License ✔ Step 3 Selling/Leasing or if wanting to buy or sell Homemade Crafts merchandise, food, equipment requires a Seller's Permit. ✔ Step 4 All Homemade Crafts Businesses Using a DBA doing business as name need a DBA Fictitious Business Name ✔ Step 5 Hiring Homemade Crafts Workers Requires a Federal EIN and a State Tax Number EIN
Selling/Leasing or if wanting to buy or sell Homemade Crafts merchandise, food, equipment requires a Seller's Permit.
All Homemade Crafts Businesses Using a DBA doing business as name need a DBA Fictitious Business Name
Hiring Homemade Crafts Workers Requires a Federal EIN and a State Tax Number EIN
As of 11/12/2026 8:37:33 AM, you can obtain your INOLA seller's permit here at $39 plus any tax you may have to pay in advance. To set up your reseller license is inexpensive but starting your business may cost you about (figures vary depending on area and type of business ) $412.78 or $6674036.66 depending on your start up money. Getting a license in INOLA ROGERS INOLA, 74036 You will have many potential clients in this city. In fact, as much as 6145 but about 2296 are families in this area in OK. In addition, getting a 918 cell phone area code may help increase the idea that you operate from the city because you can text your clients as a local vendor (remember, everyone is texting these days). You can lease a space to operate your business from but if buying a house, the prices are (about $ 74036 83200 avergage value) , which you can use as a home operated business as well.
Your actual location in INOLA will be your business address. E.g., your business location could be 6602 INOLA Road/Avenue or 66TH Way/Ct or INOLA, OK . Operating from a 74036 P.O. Box location purported as your business mailing address. E.g. P.O Box 61792 INOLA,OK 74036 . However this turns out, in 675 considering demographics is intelligent. For example,
before iinvesting in getting a wholesale license there, there are about 5073, Whites, 81 Hispanics, and 41 Blacks in the 74036 area. Another important consideration is that of the residents' income in the wingspan of your business location. Each family here earns about $41734 per household and has about 2.78 residents per family. However, is the weather nice? Consider that the altitude is 602 feet, and you getting a seller's license in 6 time zone.