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Amazon Tax May Kill Affiliate Programs

posted April 7, 2008 - 12:56am
Amazon Tax May Kill Affiliate Programs

The law makers in New York are discussing the 'Amazon Tax' which requires the affiliates bringing in customer referrals to collect and pay tax for all their referrals. If made into a law, this would make the affiliate programs very unviable and change the rules of e-commerce and e-retailing.

The law makers in New York are discussing the 'Amazon Tax' which requires the affiliates bringing in customer referrals to collect and pay tax for all their referrals. If made into a law, this would make the affiliate programs very unviable and change the rules of e-commerce and e-retailing.


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We'll see what happens

Let's see if it even gets signed into law and holds up to the Constitutional challenge first. DO YOU HAVE THE WRITE STUFF?

My experience Says Otherwise

Call me a cynic if you want, but my experience says that all these people, i.e. government, the banks, investors, industry and the rich guys are all hand in glove with each other, with a common objective of ripping off the middle class. The middle class, because they get nothing from the poor and they themselves are the rich ones.

How would they enforce it?

It sounds like yet another tax designed to cripple the productive members of society, who are looking for more non-traditional ways to make supplement or even replace their income from a j-o-b. Unfortunately for anti-production advocates, such legislation is doomed to failure because it cannot be enforced. That is, unless websites with affiliate programs roll over on their members and allow governments unfettered access to accounts; could happen. But, what would really happen is accounts would be opened and/or transferred out-of-state, possibly using a P.O. or PMB. If there is a loophole, I should expect it to be exploited. DO YOU HAVE THE WRITE STUFF?

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