Two years ago, I had to get a PA sales tax license just to sell my book at an event that was a one-shot thing. This is not the first time I had to get a license. Years ago I got one to sell a product for a business enterprise that my uncle and I operated through mail order that included Pa sales.
Both of these examples are of ongoing for-profit business activities and require the sales tax license because you were selling to the public. York is a private event, and in the member halls the dealing is member-to-member (all private transactions), not dealer-to-member like in the dealer halls (and all the dealers in the dealer halls are required to collect sales tax and have the appropriate tax license). The point is that members in the member halls are not engaging strictly in business activity - it is as much social activity as anything else, and this is why the tax arrangement with the state is what it is now. I, like all of the other member table-holders I know, do not want to give the state reason to revisit the arrangement that the TCA has with them with regards to this meet. If I had to have a tax license, I would not bother getting a table at all, and I would bet money that the majority of member table-holders feel the same way, and I am not a betting man.
Andy
