Is it necessary to register for tax and legal reasons? Also, let's say a customer gets angry and isn't satisfied, how should you respond? And what if they decide to sue because you didn't deliver what they wanted? Is a terms of service related to this? How do I write a terms of service?
This is assuming US.<p>You don't need to register for tax reasons. When doing taxes you report that income on, I believe, Schedule C form (which corresponds to a line in 1040 Form). Creating a company (LLC or S Corp) will cost you a bit of money and a bit of additional accounting/tax hassle.<p>As to people suing you.<p>A lawsuit would cost at least thousands of dollars in lawyer costs. No sane person will spend thousands of dollars to recover tens of dollars (or whatever your newsletter would cost).<p>Not to mention that unless you clearly defrauded them, they would not win. "I don't like what I bought" is not a winning legal argument.<p>The worst that can happen is that if they paid via credit card they can issue a chargeback through their bank. Which is why if you have angry customers that are not satisfied with your product, refund them quickly, no questions asked.<p>You don't need terms of service. In practice they'll not make any difference.<p>If you really want some meaningless text on your website, you can pay a lawyer, use a services that sells cookie cutter TOS or copy TOS of someone who does a very similar thing.