Yesterday a sad news came from Colorado: the House Bill 1193 (aka “Amazon tax” or “affiliate tax”, but really an “advertising tax”) has passed the House (33 “yes” to 32 “no”), and moved on to the Colorado Senate where it will undergo a similar consideration and voting route. Melanie Seery clarifies: This process is first [...]
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Following the states of New Mexico, Virginia, Colorado and Mississippi, the state of Vermont — whose 2010 budget deficit is not as bad as that of the other four states, but is still at some $300 million this year – has stepped onto the “affiliate tax” path too. Melanie Seery of Affiliate Advocacy has made [...]
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Here’s the latest news from the “affiliate tax” battlefields: Colorado The bill did pass motion yesterday: 6 “yes” to 5 “no”, but there is still hope. Read more in Rebecca Madigan’s Colorado Affiliates Rocked the House! post. Update (as of late evening 01/29/10): 33 voted for the Colorado HB-1193 “affiliate tax” bill. It has passed [...]
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Here’s the latest news from the “affiliate tax” battlefields: Colorado The bill did pass motion yesterday: 6 “yes” to 5 “no”, but there is still hope. Read more in Rebecca Madigan’s Colorado Affiliates Rocked the House! post. Update (as of late evening 01/29/10): 33 voted for the Colorado HB-1193 “affiliate tax” bill. It has passed [...]
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…if the House Bill HB10-1193 becomes law. Scroll down to the bottom of this post to learn how you can help today. Here’s the full text of the letter that the President of Overstock.com wrote to Colorado-based affiliate marketers: Dear Affiliate: Overstock.com values your advertising efforts on our behalf, and we hope to be in [...]
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Wow, what a busy end of January! And unfortunately adding the adjective “good” before “busy” isn’t going to be appropriate this time. New Mexico on the 21st, Virginia and Colorado on the 22nd, and today it’s the state of Mississippi — which is facing a $850 million budget deficit this year – that has turned [...]
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What Happened? On Friday, January 22, 2010, Bill HB10-1193 [pdf here], introducing the affiliate tax in the State of Colorado, has been released and referred to the Appropriations Committee. The Committee meeting is going to be held on January 27, 2010. Here’s an excerpt from the bill: (II) (A) Commencing March 1, 2010, if a [...]
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A worrying news has come through today: following New Mexico the state of Virginia — which is facing a $3.6 billion budget deficit this year [more here] — is now considering an affiliate tax as well. I’ve read about it in Scott Jangro’s AffBook blog [link to post], Googled the topic and found this post [...]
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Melanie Seery of Affiliate Advocacy has tweeted: New Mexico has introduced its 2010 House Bill 50 (second edition) “clarifying nexus in regard to certain Internet sales.” The nexus definition/basis is very similar to those in the other states affected by the tax, namely: “A person with a business with no physical presence in New Mexico [...]
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Gary Kibel of Davis & Gilbert LLP has tweeted: I’ve just finished reading the Puget Sound Business Journal (Seattle) article he has linked to. While the article seems to view the affiliate tax as primarily Amazon’s trouble, it provides a good recap of what has happened on the affiliate tax front so far, and talks [...]
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