Comments on: Business License, Shmizness License

By: SAACJack

SAACJack — Thu, 13 May 2010 13:00:27 +0000

If I were a betting man, my money would be on a license office snafu. As a former retailer for large chair stores in malls, I know we always received a notice from the countywhen it was up for renewal. This was simply passed on to the corporate office to handle…never done at local store level. These chains would have no interest, monetarily or otherwise, to avoid paying these TINY fees, given what they pay monthly in rent and common area fees. Nor would a corporation incur the payroll expense of having an employee solely responsible for keeping up with renewal dates/fees for all their stores across the country. This was a GWINNETT “CF”, you can bank on it.

By: DEM

DEM — Wed, 12 May 2010 18:05:03 +0000

Yeah, because the Lord knows those businesses don’t pay anything else to the government for the privilege of engaging in the commerce that would be impossible witout government promotion. I mean, without Gwinnett County government, who would ever dare to sell me a polo shirt or a book? Gwinnett needs to license these businesses to protect me, right?

By: Cribbster

Cribbster — Wed, 12 May 2010 14:45:43 +0000

The warning part of that doesn’t make sense to me either. What are the chances that all those businesses would have been warned and also decided coincidentally not to pay the licenses? Either no one felt any reason to pay for licenses (which might mean that no one anywhere does — beyond the mall) or there’s some other factor that hasn’t been reported.

By: Square101

Square101 — Wed, 12 May 2010 12:43:58 +0000

Well, I will like to go to DeKalb and argue this about paying yearly car taxes, renewing driver’s license, etc – they will laugh in my face.

By: Heather

Heather — Wed, 12 May 2010 01:04:39 +0000

I see business licenses mostly as junk fees from city and county governments. If you have your professional license and you pay your taxes, that should cover it. Still, they are in place and the big retailers especially should have known better. Certainly no one in dear old Decatur would do such a thing. Horrors.