Good straightforward letters to the legislators. Sorry for not replying to your above comments. Been busy with a travel over the Atlantic, and related tasks.

Tomorrow (Tuesday, June 23, 2009) Matt Enders is going to the North Carolina General Assembly. Join him at Legislative Building at 16 West Jones Street in Raleigh, NC to fight the bill [details here]

To: Honorable …
Cc: Local newspaper

Honorable …,

As a voting citizen I wonder, why does State Legislature want to rob our State budget of so much needed funds?

You see, I am talking about proposed Affiliate Tax, that become so big source of income for our State citizens that it’s caught an eye of legislators as a potential source of budget income. And it is already.

Every $1 earned by a NC affiliate and spent in the state brings about 4.25 cents to the state budget in sales tax. Then, it is paid by merchants to the local employees as a salary bringing more money, and once they spend it, adding to the state budget as even more sales tax.

Proposed Affiliate Tax already forces some vendors to discontinue their relationships with NC affiliates (are you aware of Amazon.com decision?). It will also force many of affiliates to quit and seek other income opportunities or move out of state. As a result, we can safely see that the taxable base may be reduced in times as a result of the Affiliate Tax introduction. Sales tax from $0.10 (what will be left from the current $1 earnings by an affiliate) is meagerly $0.00424, less than half of a cent, an amount not even worth considering.

So, in effect, Affiliate Tax will significantly reduce budget income from this popular and important business in the North Carolina state.

Compare 4 cents and 0.425 cents. Why State Legislature wants to rob our State budget of so needed funds in the dire times like now?

Sincerely,
…

Hello

Please help fight the NC Affiliate Tax. This is putting thousands of people out of business people out of business as I type this letter. They cannot pay any taxes if they have no jobs! How can you help pass a law that is unconstitutional? It really upsets me that North Carolina cannot make money with out discriminating against a group of people. They discriminant against smokers, drinkers people who buy gasoline people who buy soft drinks and now online businesses where will it end??

Thank You for reading this.

Free Americans Now!

Now if we can get them to read it they don’t seem to know what serve the People means anymore. We keep telling them what we want they iggy us! How can we get this to more people fast?

John, moving out of the state is not going to resolve the larger problem (more and more states start looking into introducing similar laws). The only answer to the solution is to fight!

Here’s a good place for all of us to start: Internet Marketers Against the NC Affiliate Tax (I’ve just signed it myself).

Additionally, NC-based affiliate marketers should contact theri state representative [find yours here] about this a.s.a.p.

Experiences in Maryland and Minnesota (earlier this year) have shown that bills like these can be successfully fought when we get serious about it.

I wonder, how much will NC lose in taxes because of it? If it was noticeable to introduce a tax, the losses in income taxes and generally spending should be also quite noticeable.

And Amazon… well, I guess they are doing the right thing.