For non-gaming Nevada venues with live entertainment and an occupancy of 200 or more

The remodel month still needed a zero return.

Footlights keeps each night’s admission charges — cover, required minimums, entry tables and required fees — apart from VIP charges on top, takes off documented tip-outs, card fees and broker amounts, and works out the month’s 9% Live Entertainment Tax, collected and short. Every month since registering is listed, with its due date.

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Footlights with its example records in it

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The problem

Nine percent of getting in, every month.

Nevada taxes 9% of the admission charge to a facility with live entertainment and an occupancy of 200 or more. Dancers count, and so does a DJ. A non-gaming venue files monthly, by the last day of the next month — and a month with nothing still needs a zero return. What counts as admission, and what comes off with documentation, is where the worksheet goes wrong.

of the admission charge to a facility with live entertainment.

Nevada Department of Taxation →

200

maximum occupancy or more, and the facility is in.

Nevada Department of Taxation →

Monthly

returns for non-gaming venues, due the last day of the following month.

Nevada Department of Taxation →

Will not mark a month filed that is not ready.

Not a reminder. Filed refuses, with the reason named, while the month is still running, a night has deductions with no documentation, the confirmation number is missing, or the amount paid is less than the tax. A filed month cannot be edited. There is no override.

How it works

Venue, nights, return

Set the venue

The occupancy and where the figure comes from, and the first month registered. A licensed gaming establishment is stopped: it reports elsewhere.

Write each night

Cover, required minimums, entry tables, required fees, VIP charges on top, the deductions and their documentation, and the 9% collected.

Build the return

Admission charges, deductions, taxable receipts, the tax, collected and short. A month with no nights is a zero return.

What it will never do

It works out the month. It files nothing.

Footlights builds the figures. You file the return yourself.

No filing.Nothing goes to Nevada. Footlights prints the month.

Not for gaming venues.A licensed gaming establishment reports to the Gaming Control Board instead.

It is not an accountant.A question on what counts as admission goes to yours.

It never touches a payment.The subscription is for software.

Pricing

Priced per venue

Less than one night’s cover.

Most venues

One venue

$25/month

One non-gaming Nevada venue.

Admission kept apart from VIP
Documented deductions
Every month, zero ones too

One venue, yearly

$250/year

The same, two months free.

Everything in One venue
Filing gate, no override
Export for your bookkeeper

Subscription. Your bank statement says Footlights Software. Refunded in full on request within 30 days. Your licence key is emailed to you within two working days of payment.

Checkout is our own bitcoin server, not a card processor — nobody we had to apply to and nobody who can close the account. The button takes you straight to it. Give your email address there — that is where your key is sent.

Questions

The ones we actually get asked

Is a VIP booth charge admission?

Not when it is on top of admission. A table charge that is the way in is.

What comes off?

Tips passed to staff, card fees kept by someone else, and amounts kept by a ticket broker — each with documentation.

What if we were closed all month?

A non-gaming venue still files a zero return. Footlights lists it with its due date.

Is this tax advice?

No. It is the worksheet your bookkeeper would otherwise build by hand.

What do I actually get when I pay?

The demo on this page is the whole program, running on invented records. Paying gets you a licence key — one line of text, emailed to the address you give at checkout within two working days. Paste it into the program and from then on it keeps your own records. Until then, nothing you type into it is kept.

The key is checked inside the page, on your own machine. It never calls us, so there is still no account and nothing about your business goes anywhere. If you ever stop paying, your records stay exactly where they are, read-only, and Export still hands you every one of them.

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The invented Las Vegas cabaret never filed the zero return for its remodel month. VIP booth charges are kept out of admission, a fight-night broadcast had no dancers, one night’s tip-outs have no sheet, and two nights collected short. Footlights catches every one.

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