Can a 4-Year-Old Apply for a Business License?

Apparently she can. A law-enforcement officer shut down a makeshift lemonade stand run by a 4-year-old girl last Friday for making sales without a Coralville business license.

The girl, Abigail Krutsinger, had been looking for ways of earning some pocket-money, so at her father’s suggestion, she began selling lemonade from a small table on her front lawn during the busy RAGBRAI seasonal event. RAGBRAI is the Des Moines Register’s Annual Great Bicycle Ride Across Iowa.

Unfortunately she picked the wrong time to run her first business as police officials are out in full force to ensure all sales taking place during the RAGBRAI event are being done by vendors that have acquired the proper Iowa business licenses.

According to DigTriad.com, “City administrator Kelly Hayworth says to be a food vendor during RAGBRAI, you have to apply for a four hundred dollar business permit...and that applies to everyone, even Abigail.”

This story comes at the heels of a surge of similar events where law enforcement officers have been stopping kids from learning how to start their own businesses for failing to acquire the proper business licenses.

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