Several things – important to affiliates, and affiliate marketing industry as a whole — have happened in the course of the past few days, unfortunately not all good, and today I’d like to draw your attention to the following four: 1. Pennsylvania Enacts Affiliate Nexus Tax law — Late last night (on December 1, 2011) the [...]
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We’ve been monitoring what’s been happening in California with affiliate nexus tax over the years, and now that the bill AB155 is signed, and many merchants are re-instating and/or re-inviting California affiliates back into their programs, I thought it’d be interesting to get an affiliate take on these things, and reached out to one of [...]
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Following the signing of California statute AB 155 (which I discussed a week ago here) Amazon has invited California-based affiliates — over 10,000 of which were terminated from Amazon’s Associates program in June 2011 — to re-enroll in their affiliate program. As Sarah Duxbury — who, apparently, was one of the booted affiliates as well [...]
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On Friday the Governor of California, Jerry Brown, signed AB 155 — “a statute that repeals the Affiliate Nexus Tax law for one year” [source]. I tweeted about it on Friday, and also retweeted the news on Sunday, receiving an immediate question (a very good question): So what’s next? Well, let’s rewind things back 3 [...]
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Yesterday (July 24) in his Sacramento Bee column Bruce Maiman provided his viewpoint of the whole “Amazon tax” situation. Among other things in his article he made a statement of affiliate marketing which I simply cannot miss. Maiman wrote: …Another claim: The law punishes thousands of California small businesses affiliated with Amazon. To explain: Affiliate [...]
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Since my last post on the bad news from California, Governor Brown has signed the bill [more here], while Amazon has announced its decision to cut ties with its California-based affiliates (which includes not only affiliates of Amazon.com, but also of all its subsidiaries, such as Audible.com, Endless.com, Zappos.com, 6pm.com, and others). As an example, [...]
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Bad news has just come from the state of California — the affiliate nexus tax, which I frequently cover in my blog, seems to be on the threshold of materializing. No, not into cash — the state treasurer is right on the money when saying that the online sales tax revenue is good in theory, [...]
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Earlier last week Amazon held its annual shareholder meeting in downtown Seattle. One of the questions that came up repeatedly was one that is of utmost importance to the affiliate marketing world — namely, the affiliate nexus tax, and Amazon’s stance on it. We know that every time a new state considers such a legislation [...]
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You may remember the year 2009 when California had its affiliate nexus bill revived, and then vetoed by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, pointing to the right reason — the unemployment was already “at an all time high”, and the Governor advised: “we should be doing everything we can to keep jobs and create jobs in California”. [...]
Continue reading about California Considers Affiliate Tax, Illinois Sued Over Such Law
A merchant who is setting up a new affiliate program wrote to me: I’ve read your new book, and am determined to create a 100% affiliate-friendly program, welcoming affiliates from all U.S. states. I understand that Amazon tax is a problem that many affiliates are concerned about. We are happy to collect the tax, making [...]
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