I'll start eating.

I won't really be able to afford to have stock in all sizes :(.

No prob, I'll make bootleg shirts or something, haha.

I'm pretty buff so it's all good.

You can shrink it in the wash if you absolutely must.

Hmm, Aaron, you have a job. Do you happen to know if paying for postage for stuff your business sells is considered a tax deductible business expense?

Yes, provided you're a registered business you can claim it [ABN registered], IIRC.

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[url]http://www.smartcompany.com.au/business-information/tax-deduction-tips.html[/url]

Beauty. I'll be registered as a small business with an ABN and all that.

So say, if I made a sale and sent a bunch of CDs and a shirt overseas, I could claim 100% of the postage fee when tax time rolled around?

How about the cost of hosting the website that I'll be doing all the business through, would that be allowed?

Yeah all of the above as far as I know. Just keep reciepts and use MYOB to manage it.

That's freaking ace.

Yeah, you gotta do BAS though.

What's that, like, a tax form for my business?

Basically. [I]Business Activity Statement[/I]. Done quarterly. Although, off the top of my head, there's rules around businesses that have low earnings [ie turnover under $X per quarter].

My earnings are likely to be negligible.

Should be sweet then. See an accountant if you can though.

May as well hey.

I think it'll be fun though, I'm confident at least a few people would want to buy the Tiger Panic CDs.

Do it. If they're downloading my jibberish surely yours'd do better, lol.

I'll be wishing I hadn't already given all the albums to you guys for free :lol:.

haha

The next one won't be free haha.

A few sample tracks but that'll be it unfortunately.

How are you going to market it?

hobbits are a very resilient people

[QUOTE=badtaste;16925773]How are you going to market it?[/QUOTE]

What do you mean?

[QUOTE=gaslight;16925776]What do you mean?[/QUOTE]

Well, I assume you want to get your music out there, just wondering what plans you have in mind on achieving that.

Word of mouth basically, and whatever internet whoring can be done.

smartyhost.com.au

Already got a website :).

Aight. we should start a whoring service for whatever music comes out of this thread.

I'm willing to run naked at a sporting event with your band on my butt cheeks.

Haha. You don't have to go to that much trouble.

When the site is up, if you get two people to purchase CDs, I'll give you a free one. Any good?

holy poo.

3 things just happened.

i just did a suicide drink/hard man according to the nz at the pub - snort salt. lemon in the eye. shot tequila.

i got with the girl i posted in a picture earlier on in the month.

my ears finally popped from getting off the plane.