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What the application needs
Licenses & Inspections links the actual legal business and any trading name to the city tax account and tax compliance. The city directs obtaining this licence before other business licences. Certain listed activities use an Activity License Number instead, so match the route to the actual activity.
An outside cleaning operator serving a Philadelphia customer should therefore check this city process even without a local lease. The customer job does not by itself settle every tax or employee duty.
No fee or renewal—for this licence
The cited page says the CAL has no cost and does not require renewal. Those facts belong only to the CAL. They do not remove other taxes, premises permissions, sector approvals or annual duties, and an unknown separate amount is not zero.
Scope
- The CAL route does not complete premises, employee, tax calculation or franchise-sales review. Other fees and actual processing time remain unverified.
Next step
Confirm the city tax-account match and whether the activity needs a CAL or the specified alternative number.
Sources & review notes
Philadelphia Licenses & Inspections
Passage, dates and research notes
official-guidance · Main guidance
This includes businesses that are located outside the city limits
Limited review of the named process; not a complete municipal, county, special-district or sector survey.
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