{"id":2313,"date":"2018-03-19T09:48:22","date_gmt":"2018-03-19T16:48:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/warealestatephotos.com\/?p=1702"},"modified":"2020-11-16T02:49:49","modified_gmt":"2020-11-16T02:49:49","slug":"photography-sales-tax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wremedia.com\/photography-sales-tax\/","title":{"rendered":"Photography and Sales Tax"},"content":{"rendered":"

As a photographer, are you collecting sales tax?<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Probably not, right?<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

In the state of Washington, digital photographs are <\/span>treated the same<\/span><\/a> as tangible, physical photographs \u2014 even if they\u2019re transferred and sold electronically.<\/span><\/p>\n

This means that each photograph taken for a client is subject to retail B&O and sales tax. Photographers are responsible for collecting and reporting such tax.<\/span><\/p>\n

In contrast, the service you\u2019re providing \u2014 actually <\/span>taking <\/span><\/i>the photos \u2014 is not subject to taxation. You only need to collect tax for each photo you provide.<\/span><\/p>\n

To do so, you must determine the cost of each photo, and then collect tax based on each photo sent to a client or customer.<\/span><\/p>\n

If, for example, a photoshoot costs $250 and you price each photo at $5, you would collect taxes for each $5 photo.<\/span><\/p>\n

The cost of digital goods should be displayed as a separate line item on an invoice, with the next line showing the amount of sales tax being charged <\/span>based on the cost of digital goods<\/b>, i.e. <\/span>not <\/span><\/i>the actual photoshoot (which is deemed a service, not goods).<\/span>
\nConsult a <\/span>CPA or financial professional<\/span><\/a> for help determining the percent of sales tax you should be collecting.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As a photographer, are you collecting sales tax?   Probably not, right?   In the state of Washington, digital photographs are treated the same as tangible, physical photographs \u2014 even if they\u2019re transferred and sold electronically. This means that each photograph taken for a client is subject to retail B&O and sales tax. Photographers are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2490,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wremedia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2313"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wremedia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wremedia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wremedia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wremedia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wremedia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2313\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wremedia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wremedia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wremedia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wremedia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}