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My customer is tax exempt
I am in Florida and my customer has a tax exempt form becsuse he buys and sells cars for his dealer business. If I do work on one of his vehicles does he have to pay taxes for the work I do? This is the first time I am dealing with this. Has anyone encountered this? So who pays the taxes in the end, the buyer of that car?
1 like • 26d
I am going to follow up with the state revenue office. My first thoughts was exactly your point, Ben. Stay tuned for the states response.
2 likes • 22d
Yes, Ben is correct in his first and second comments. I just talked to the Florida department of revenue. If a part is supplied by the customer and you do the work, no tax collected. If you supply parts and labor, its taxed. My customer was only tax exempt in Ohio on his tax exempt status for his auto dealership. I supplied the parts and labor so that service is taxed.
When you can't meet expectations.
So my 11 year old son and I started a small biz. We work only a few jobs a week because of his school and my day job. I figured this would be a good opportunity for him learn business and cars. Anyways when your working a job, sometime things don't go as planned. Especially for the medium to large jobs. When I was doing this for friends for free or on my own vehicles, it wasn't that big of a deal to manage expectations or pick it up the next day. However, when someone is paying me, I fee a need to make everything perfect in the planned time. If I can't get something done with in the time, it may be a week before my son and I can get back out there. I know it is not normal, but my son and I charge a flat rate for a job. Some times I may take extra time teaching my son something or I may go at a slower pace. So I charge a flat rate based on how many hours the "book" says it will take. This way the customer doesn't pay for any extra time it might take to get the job done. Do any of you guys have a plan or policy for how you handle not meeting expectations (Yours or the customers)? Do you refund all or part of their money? Are there other options or ideas. I have a really hard time not meeting expectations and I want to grow past this. So I am curious to hear what you guys do. Especially if your only doing this part time.
1 like • Jan 26
I am in the rv repair business and have learned a tremendous amount on this platform. Honesty is best with the customer. I run my business part time and sometimes I will have to order a part and get back to them the next week. The customer usually does not mind and understands that I cannot carry every part.
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Hey guys anyone from Florida.
0 likes • Dec '25
Hey Denval. I am in the same area.
0 likes • Dec '25
@Denval Edwards Hi Denval. What is your business name?
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Peter Suriano
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@peter-suriano-1922
I run my mobile, rv repair business part time in St. Cloud, FL. Looking forward to learn about scaling, growing, developing my business.

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Joined Nov 22, 2025
Saint Cloud, FL