06/25/2026
:
“I got audited.
Ask me how I survived so you could save yourself from having to pay $15,000 & being fu**ed over by the state!
In January this year, I hired a new accounting firm. Upon reviewing my finances, this team asked how I was paying my State Sales tax, I explained that I didn’t know and thought it was taken care of each year when I sent my taxes in to my accountants. This was not the case. for 2 years.
Luckily, the Texas State Comptroller’s office really helped me and guided me through this fu***ng maze to take care of this ridiculous situation, and I paid the amount I owed over the last 2 years today without having to be pulled into any kind of lien or payment plan.
Not everyone is this fortunate in their small businesses. This fu***ng sucked for me, still, I bought a new vehicle ONE WEEK before I found all of this out in January, and took out a very aggressive loan, thinking I knew I could handle it.
I have been able to manage all of this, thankfully, but that didn’t make it any less stressful.
All of this to say:
TEXAS PHOTOGRAPHERS:
If you are not recording and paying your STATE taxes, each month, I pray you never get caught and have to deal with something like this taking away assets and your livelihood.
You should start paying those today, just to be safe.
ALSO, this is why it’s so important to make sure you have a competent cpa and that THEY are checking your state laws and regulations so s**t like this doesn’t happen.
All digital services are taxable in the state of Texas.
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