Good morning Pam Its a good idea to do it. 1. It protects your name, its like your trademark, your image. 2. You can be fined in most states if you don't.
You are a business woman so you must handle your business :) for 20 years you didn't know, now you know what's needed to be a legal entity in ohio. Shawn Chicago [email protected] wrote: >The bank was offering a promotion of $200 to open a business checking account. > However, before you qualified as a "business" they checked the State Of Ohio >website to see if you had "registered" your business. She actually went to >the website, then entered my business name and came up with nothing! I was >shocked, because I have been doing business under this name for over 20 years! > Paying sales tax on your business has nothing to do with "registering" your >business name with the State of Ohio it turns out! Registering your business >name prevents others from using your name. Its $50 to register the name for 5 >years, then $25 to "renew" the registered name. I guess I will go ahead and >register it, as she pointed out, since it came up with nothing in the search, >at least no one else has registered my business name in Ohio either! > > > > >Pam >Ohio > >-----Original Message----- >From: Shawn Wilson <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Sent: Sun, Feb 27, 2011 10:08 am >Subject: Re: NailTech:: Registering Your Business Name with your state > > >I think that's true if you are using your name and not a business name like >Nails By Me). >In saying that, Pam are just using your name or are you setting up a business >ccount using a business name? >Shawn >Anna Z-James <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Register with whom? I never heard of that, most banks will allow you to open > a >usiness account as long as you have a EIN and your state license? Was this a >mall bank? > > > >Anna >Creations by Anna Z-James >www.annazjames.com > > > > > > >-----Original Message----- >From: [email protected] >To: [email protected] >Sent: Sun, Feb 27, 2011 5:42 am >Subject: NailTech:: Registering Your Business Name with your state > > >Hi Techs, > I went to open a business checking acct at a different bank yesterday and > was >old that I could NOT open a business checking acct because I wasn't >registered" with the state of Ohio! I had brought my vendors lic. , but the >ady said that that only proves I pay taxes and that I had never "registered" >my >usiness name in Ohio ! WTH is this!? I asked her why I would register my >ame after 20 years of doing nails under this name. She gave me an example of >a >ank client who didn't register his name, ex. Ohio Carpet Cleaning, and when a >ompetitor opened a business under the same name and REGISTERED it with Ohio, >he original business owner had to CHANGE his business name, repaint his signs, >is trucks, re-do his business cards, etc. Of course, there is a $50 fee to >register" your business name with Ohio! This is all news to me, what do ya'll >hink? When I register, is it going to bring an avalanche of paperwork down on >e? What changes besides the fact that no one else can use your name? >Pam >Nail Designs >Ohio > > >-- >You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >NailTech" group. >To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >[email protected]. >For more options, visit this group at >http://groups.google.com/group/nailtech?hl=en. > > > >-- >You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >NailTech" group. >To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >[email protected]. >For more options, visit this group at >http://groups.google.com/group/nailtech?hl=en. > >-- >ou received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >NailTech" group. >o post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >o unsubscribe from this group, send email to >[email protected]. >or more options, visit this group at >http://groups.google.com/group/nailtech?hl=en. > >-- >You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >"NailTech" group. >To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >[email protected]. >For more options, visit this group at >http://groups.google.com/group/nailtech?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NailTech" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nailtech?hl=en.
