Whether or not to get a tax id

ID for the business so long as she reports her income on her own
tax return. On her own tax return, being in business or not makes
a difference to some things, like deductions for expenses and
capital gain vs. ordinary income. 

In some states, Sales Tax and Use Taxes reports are required along
with ‘income tax’.

Ray

Out of curiosity have you Googled your name lately? You would be
surprised what a computer nerd can do with just the correct spelling
of your first and last name and a computer. I have see it done and
was blown away.

Karen Bahr
Karen’s Artworx
Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Ray;

I can applaud your Statement but I would like to say in rebuttal to

but it takes just a bit more than just an SS# to steal
someone identity.

As far as your statement goes it is true that JUST a SS number will
not allow someone to steal your Identity. However with you SSN and a
few computer hacking skills aonyone has what they need most to
represent themselves as you in order to gain the rest of the info to
steal your Identity.I’m old enought that my SSN card plainly states.
“DO NOT USE FOR IDENTIFICATION”. How many places have your SSN? DMV,
Hospital, Bank, Courts and some legal Documents. Many others also
file your in their file system with a cross refference
between what ever ID# they may give you with your SSN.Now someone
call in or hacks in and says “Gee I’ve lost me ID# can you give me a
new one?” Yes Mr. Smith but first I need to verify your ID. Could
you please give my your SSN and birthdate please?" I provide those
pieces of info now they are more than happy to help me. Now with
that new ID number and the SSN, Birth date, from your birth
certificate that I got by using your name and SSN to the state
records for vital statistics /Birth. I have infact just stolen your
ID and can represent myself as you any place I want to that does not
have a picture ID of you or youFingerprints or DNA on file or other
Bio-metric scans to positively ID thereal you from the phony.Would
you agree that I just stole your ID? And all I had to begin with was
your name and SSN.Ray I am not saying this as any kind of put down.
But like many other things in our business there are many
misconseptions floating around. In this case it is that just your
SSN is not enough to steal your ID. By itself if all you have is SSN
#123-45-6789. with out a name you are probably 99.99% correct. I
haven’t found the way yet to convert a raw number into a name. If
some enterprising bad nick ever does, and that is the.01% chance.
Ten all bet would be off. Before starting my retirement to
Silversmithing I spent 19+ years with IBM. I was always amazed at
what could be done to bypass computer security.

Or building security for that matter. Example Mag card reader
security access to buildings easily bypased with a tab card and a
piece of magnetic media tape. Hack into the main computer download
the security ID from someone who works there, whose SSN you just
happen to have aquired. Write the neccessary date that you
downloaded to the mag media. go to the door swipe the bogus card and
OPEN SESSAME.So please everyone Protect your infor mation. I don’t
care how trivial you might think it is. Protect it or shred it, burn
it, or what ever to not let that info into anyone elses hands. That
is the surest way to help protect your Identity. And even that might
not be enough protection from the enterprising badnicks.Sorry for
the long wind but I fell this is a very important and timely
issue.AS usual all disclaimers and this is only MHO.

John (Jack) Sexton