If you plan on doing this on the side for extra cash to get your feet wet don't get involved with the "Business" aspect of it yet.

If you feel you have the experience to take it on as a full blown business and you are going to have a shop to work out of then you need to find out what the city/state license requirements are. As far as the Federal requirements, you deal with that at the end of the year when you are doing your taxes and file Schedule C. At that point you will have to determine what is expected of you in the way of quarterly payments to offset you taxes for the following year.

You should be able to go online and access the city and state business license information for NY.

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