Renee D

I believe you can’t sell dry or prepared tea without a commercial license. http://forrager.com/faq/#commercial

No… everything you sell must be baked.

You definitely need to pay income taxes and you don’t need an LLC or tax ID. You may or may not need to get a business license — call up your planning division to find out. If you do not need to get a business license, then the state will classify you as a sole proprietorship by default.

I don’t think there is anything, other than that you should call your planning division to find out if there are any requirements for your specific area.

It is a strange restricted they’ve added to the law, and I don’t know exactly how the health dept interprets it, but this is how I interpret it:

You cannot put any kind of fresh fruit in baked goods, so banana bread or an apple pie from fresh apples would not be allowed.
You can use canned fruit, so a cherry pie with canned cherries would be…[Read more]

Yes, you can advertise your product online as long as all of your sales are in-person.

For the law that goes into effect on November 1st, no, you do not need a food handlers class.

Mary Jane, maybe I can help clarify from what I think is happening. It’s actually all good!

HB 1094 has already passed and will go into effect in November, as you know. The other bill, SB 920, has not yet been passed, as far as I know. But the reason it’s also being considered is because it doesn’t have some of the limitations that HB 1094 does.…[Read more]