Go Back   tanTALK - Tanning Salon Business Owners Community > TanTalk Central > Tanning Salon Management

Tanning Salon Management Salon management help here.

Reply
 
LinkBack Thread Tools
Old 08-23-2011, 03:12 PM   #1 (permalink)
 
Join Date: Aug 22 2011
Location: Alexandria la
Posts: 6
Rep Power: 0 bananahut is on a distinguished road
tan tax

Does anyone know exact regulations regarding the tan tax and if it would be required to pay for a salon that offers tanning and toning combined. The salon charges a monthly membership fee which includes unlimited tanning and unlimited toning and exercise equipment. It is not a large gym but space is equally divided with tanning on one side and exercise on other. I tried taking to Irs people but they seem more confused. Any ideas
bananahut is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 08-23-2011, 03:21 PM   #2 (permalink)
 
Join Date: Apr 14 2011
Posts: 598
Rep Power: 13 delany is on a distinguished road
Re: tan tax

If you charge people for tanning, you must charge the tax. You should have already been sending in your payments.
delany is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 08-23-2011, 08:37 PM   #3 (permalink)
 
Join Date: Apr 25 2010
Location: Simi Valley, CA
Posts: 143
Rep Power: 14 TanAtCoCoBeach is on a distinguished road
Re: tan tax

You have to charge the tax based on percentage of services used if I recall correctly. If half of the membership is being charged for tanning (ie $100 monthly and $50 is going towards tanning) then half of the membership is subject to the tanning tax (ie 10% of the $50, so $5 in tax)
__________________
Alex Chuang
Owner
Coco Beach Tanning
TanAtCoCoBeach is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 08-23-2011, 08:37 PM   #4 (permalink)
 
Join Date: Apr 25 2010
Location: Simi Valley, CA
Posts: 143
Rep Power: 14 TanAtCoCoBeach is on a distinguished road
Re: tan tax

by the way i am not a tax consultant in any way... you need to talk to your CPA
__________________
Alex Chuang
Owner
Coco Beach Tanning
TanAtCoCoBeach is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 09-12-2011, 01:39 PM   #5 (permalink)
 
Join Date: Jul 29 2011
Location: washington state
Posts: 13
Rep Power: 0 sunlover71 is on a distinguished road
Re: tan tax

From all that I have read Gym's are exempt from the Tan Tax...but yes consult a CPA.
sunlover71 is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 10-05-2011, 12:39 PM   #6 (permalink)
 
Join Date: Aug 24 2010
Location: North of Boston-Mobile
Posts: 10
Rep Power: 0 suncentertan is on a distinguished road
Re: tan tax

It's just the tanning, only UV tanning, not sprays tans or the gym. Any time someone's charged to use a UV bed or booth then that's when the 10% would come into effect. I paid quarterly, basically when my accountant told me to, and on my particular software I was able to pull reports of how much was sold in UV tans alone (b/c I also offered Airbrush Tanning). I just calculated 10% of that and sent my check wherever my Accountant told me to. I've read that some owners absorbed the full tax on themselves and didn't increase prices, others added the 10% onto the prices, and some charged 5% then they paid the remaining 5%.
suncentertan is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 10-13-2011, 02:58 PM   #7 (permalink)
 
Royal's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jan 18 2002
Location: Texas
Posts: 15
Rep Power: 0 Royal is on a distinguished road
Re: tan tax

http://www.usatoday.com/money/perfi/...all/50754314/1
Royal is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 10-13-2011, 04:21 PM   #8 (permalink)
 
Join Date: Jan 24 2011
Location: Massachusetts
Age: 47
Posts: 177
Rep Power: 14 toasted1 is on a distinguished road
Re: tan tax

Great tan tax article...Cant believe the IRS made a mistake.

We always wait to the last minute to send tan tax.
toasted1 is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 10-13-2011, 05:32 PM   #9 (permalink)
Team TanTalk
 
parrot head's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jul 13 2004
Location: Menomonie, Wi.
Age: 82
Posts: 3,145
Rep Power: 22 parrot head has disabled reputation
Re: tan tax

^^I always mail early. I don't want to give them any reason to even think I should be audited. I do it with the feds and I do it with the state returns. I send them in while it's fresh on my mind, and that's as soon as the first week after the end of the quarter.
parrot head is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 10-17-2011, 01:00 PM   #10 (permalink)
 
Join Date: Mar 7 2010
Location: 1
Posts: 78
Rep Power: 0 SprayRayz is on a distinguished road
Re: tan tax

Well it looks like the IRS is finally catching up. I always pay my tan tax, but sometimes I make a partial payment one quarter and pay the remaining balance the next quarter. Today I got certified mail from the IRS saying if I didn't pay the remaining balance in 10 days I would have property seized. It isn't even the end of this tax season yet! You couldn't get ahold of someone even 2 months ago with the IRS that knew much about processing the tanning tax and now if you are not paid in full each quarter they are threatening to seize assets. Lesson noted, I will pay in full every quarter just to avoid seeing that envelope with "IRS" on it.
__________________
"Work smarter, not harder"
SprayRayz is offline   Reply With Quote
Reply

Bookmarks



Currently Active Users Viewing This Thread: 1 (0 members and 1 guests)
 
Thread Tools

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off
Trackbacks are On
Pingbacks are On
Refbacks are On


All times are GMT -5. The time now is 07:54 AM.


Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.7.2
Copyright ©2000 - 2024, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.
LinkBacks Enabled by vBSEO 3.1.0
Copyright 2009 - tanTALK.com

click here for advertising info!