I've been big into fish for a number of years, and after doing some talking with a good fish store guy giving me the scoop on how wholesalers work. I'm thinking of getting a federal tax id, so I can get wholesale prices on fish, corals, and other good stuff. Before anyone gives the support the locals line, the situation in my city for salt and freshwater fish is poor. I refuse to do any business with one store, another just has crap, and the one decent one has a good employee, but the owners head is somewhere else and they don't even have any saltwater stock. I'm wondering just where would I get a federal tax Id and any potential situations that could come up. If I'm buying for my self and I basically organize a group order from a local reef club, would there be any federal taxes that I would have to pay. Would this mess up my basic income taxes. Also this wouldn't work very well on hard goods, since online is cheaper than most wholesale list.