I was wanting to start a fence co. but would I need a business license. If so, what would be the requirements to do so.

Call the village, township, and county offices. At least one of them will require a business license. They will give you more details for the area in which you live.

It's true, that the first and easiest thing to do would be to contact the government entities mentioned above.

I am going to assume that you are in the U.S. If so, then two really great sites to obtain information about licensing and also other information for getting your business up and running would be http://www.sba.gov/ and SCORE "Counselors to America's Small Business" (http://www.score.org/)

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