[thelist] Sole proprietor

[Ornstein, Ian]

For several years, I contracted with a business name
myname DBA (doing business as) businessname.

the town where I lived required me to register the
dba name and ... to pay some business taxes.

HTH

- IanO -

Ian Ornstein - Programmer and Web Developer
IBM Global Services, Global AMS Delivery
(704) 509-8022 


-----Original Message-----
From: Warden, Matt [mailto:mwarden at mattwarden.com]
Sent: Monday, July 23, 2001 1:02 PM
To: List (E-mail)
Subject: Re: [thelist] Sole proprietor



You mean as in not a contractor?

AFAIK, bare-bones, all you need is to register with your state
goverment. You can register as a (not sure this is the right
terminology) false company for like US$10 in Ohio, US, which is basically
you being a contractor under a different, company name. Really the only
benefit is reserving that name you choose so competing companies can't use
it.


--
mattwarden
mattwarden.com

On Jul 23, Johnny Lam had something to say about [thelist] Sole proprietor

>To those running a sole proprietor,
>
>Are you running in your own name or as a "company" name? If you are running
>as a name other than your own, what is the process in doing so? I apologize
>for being off topic, but I want to operate a web design sole proprietorship
>as a different name. Just need to know what needs to be done.