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I spent some time today at Los Angeles City Hall getting registered for our city tax registration certificates. The other day, I sent in the paperwork for our “fictitious business name” registration using DBAStore.com, which our accountant recommended. We still have to get our seller’s permits from the state, but they don’t have a convenient office in downtown Los Angeles and we don’t really have the couple of weeks it will take for the registering by mail. That’s a task for next week.

Getting the city tax registration certificate was pretty painless. It took about an hour for my number to be called, and the clerk was patient as he helped me correct some mistakes I had made in filling out the forms, and in sorting out how many certificates we needed.