Performance Marketing Association has posted an important news earlier today. Apparently, the state of Virginia that faces a close to 4 billion budget deficit this year, has not included the affiliate tax (the bill for which was tabled by the House finance sub-committee on 24 February) in the budget bill. PMA wrote:
We just received hopeful [...]
Today I have had a chance to interview Jen Goode, a Colorado-based affiliate marketer and business owner, to get her inside perspective on the Colorado Internet sales tax bill, Amazon’s termination of Colorado affiliate accounts, and other related questions.
Here is the interview:
GP: Once again, thank you for agreeing to be interviewed on the topic, Jen. [...]
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Brad Crooks, a Colorado-based photographer and affiliate marketer, has posted an important link on his Facebook wall — a link to Tax Foundation’s new report on the harm and failures of the affiliate/advertising tax:
I have purposely highlighted, Brook Schaaf’s comment which I echo 100%. I agree that calling it an “Amazon tax” narrows (and shifts) [...]
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Earlier today Colorado-based affiliates participating in the Amazon Associates program (Amazon’s affiliate program) have received a notice of immediate termination. Shawn Collins posted the full text of it here. Here’s an excerpt:
Dear Colorado-based Amazon Associate:
We are writing from the Amazon Associates Program to inform you that the Colorado government recently enacted a law to impose [...]
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Performance Marketing Association has just posted:
On Thursday February 25, 2010, Governor Ritter signed into law HB 1193. This bill no longer includes any reference to affiliate nexus or the concept of an advertising tax. The final bill can be found here. It does, however, still impact online retailers, who should consult tax and legal experts.
The [...]
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Encouraging news came from the states of Virginia and Vermont yesterday.
Virginia
Yesterday (February 24, 2010) Performance Marketing Association reported:
In Virginia today, bill SB 660 was ‘tabled’ by the House finance sub-committee. This means it will not be voted on by the committee, and will most likely not be brought up again this legislative session. As a [...]
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Today’s news from Drs. Foster and Smith has already produced quite a resonance in the affiliate marketing world. The company, which has removed Virginia-based affiliates from their affiliate program 5 days ago, has now decided to shut their affiliate program down altogether.
Mike Nunez broke the news:
Then Trust posted on ABestWeb.com:
Drs. Foster and Smith & LiveAquaria [...]
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In the course of this past week I have made only one mention of the advertising tax in my blog, and it was the Drs. Foster and Smith Terminates Virginia Affiliates post, which was quoted by Melanie Seery of AffiliateAdvocacy.com in her Where is the Progress? rhetorically-questioned reflections on the following day. But the lack [...]
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Drs. Foster and Smith, one of America’s Top 500 E-tailers per Internet Retailer’s famous ranking, has just terminated relationship with all Virginia affiliates. As frequently is the case, the text of the email talks about how much they “value the affiliate relationship with each and every publisher”, but either this is a step made in [...]
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Let’s open Webster’s New World English Grammar Handbook (2009) by Shoup & Loberger on page 61. There we read:
The Subjunctive Mood
The subjunctive mood is employed to express a condition contrary to fact, a wish, a supposition, a prayer, or a doubt…
An example is given: “If I were rich, we could buy a vacation home”.
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