I seriously question whether mandating that a vendor get a sales tax license is going to discourage their attendance at a selling event. Nobody who is in the business of trains is going to go out of business because of that regulation.
I think that you are completely missing the point. The the vast majority of the members in the member halls (the table holders) are not in business at all. It is like being a seller at a flea market, or having a garage sale or yard sale. It is something they do a couple of times a year. Requiring them to wade through and fill out all of the paperwork and submit the various registration fees to get the tax ID number to be able to sell would deter them, and on top of all of that, there is the book-keeping and paperwork they would be required to do on the other end of the sales. An occasional seller is not going to go through the hassle. I know I wouldn't, and I am an occasional table-holder in the member halls, and I am not in the business of selling trains for a living.
Andy
