I called the cdtfa, expecting that I'd make the sales tax payment immediately, but they informed me that I should file and pay my sales taxes in July 2023 (my fiscal year for sales tax runs from 1-Jul-2022 to 30-Jun-2023).
Don't know what state/city/county you're in, but something sounds a bit "off" here.
For starters, sales tax is usually paid to the state - not the county. Though the county or city can impose an additional county or city sales tax.
In my experience (also self-employed) sales taxes are paid to the state (and county/city if applicable as they are in my case) on at least a quarterly basis. Depending on the amount of income, it could be due monthly. I would highly suggest and recommend you research this further and check the tax laws yourself so that you can read them yourself "in writing". I know that for my city taxes, one late payment results it quite a hefty fine. So do your homework and dig a bit deeper into this. Something just doesn't "sound right" here. I suspect that whomever you talked with, was thinking along the lines of property taxes, or business asset taxes which are commonly paid once yearly. Whereas sales tax (which is what you appear to be referring to) are paid at least quarterly, if not monthly depending on the income.
