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 […]
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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With the weekend and the snow, I haven’t blogged about the advertising tax (aka: Amazon or affiliate tax) for a few days, but things have been changing quite dynamic lately, and I do have news to report: Alarming News: The Governor of Oklahoma — the state that is facing a
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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
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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
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