My state charges state sales taxes on consumer purchases. This only applies to customers located in my same state. Not to people purchased from other states. I plan to sell my writing to consumers over the internet. I think that at some point there was talk about exempting writers from my state sales tax but I forget if that went through. If your state has a sales tax for consumer purchases, what is your experience with it? Do you have to collect it? Do you have to differentiate between in state and out of state customers? How do you do that? How does it work? Anyone know if writers in Hawaii were exempted from state sales tax? Any experience with state sales tax and business licensing and stuff like that in Hawaii?

You should really check with an accountant on these matters. Everyone is different & their might be a loophole for you. Or there might be a loophole for the one person that answers your question here. But you cannot tell the government to come over to the WHT board because that is where you received your answer.

If you do not have a CPA, you might check out http://www.scgfc.com

You can probably find most of the info for hawaii taxes at

http://www.hawaii.gov/tax/faq.html

(Sorry meant: http://www.scgfs.com/ )

You know, I have been wondering about that too, and been wanting to contact LegalZoom in regards to it, however have not had the time to do so. I will do it now, and post what they say here.