Comments on: The Affiliate Ad Taxes: Why You Should Care

By: dante

dante — Sat, 15 May 2010 05:25:36 +0000

What about canada, does this affect us as well?

By: Analog Designer

Analog Designer — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 12:13:41 +0000

Good writeup….

By: Nicholas Kamau

Nicholas Kamau — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 19:29:02 +0000

well said – They passed the same shit in north carolina and its going to cost me over 1k to register a company in nevada just because of this crap.

This is some serious shit.. but affiliate companies need to band together or they are going to get fucked. They need to take a page out of payday loans lobbying in washington. They really proctect their industry and i wish the affiliate industry would do the same.

CHeers.

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 14:25:15 +0000

Clickbank also charges sales tax – at least for me as a Colorado resident.

By: nickycakes

nickycakes — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 08:17:58 +0000

clickbank doesnt ship physical products

By: Tim

Tim — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 07:18:20 +0000

Another example would be Clickbank. Would seem they would of followed Amazons lead.

By: Tim

Tim — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 07:10:52 +0000

Any idea why other retailers and CPA networks with CPS offers don't kick out all NY affiliates? Is Amazon the only one who cares about this, seems like all affiliates in NY who run a CPS offer would be affected.

To me this would mean if your an affiliate in NY and run a rebill offer the network/advertiser should not let you run it unless they are going collect the sales tax on that sale.

By: Nimit kashyap

Nimit kashyap — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 03:12:44 +0000

very informative post.

By: Bcarter

Bcarter — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 01:43:54 +0000

I didn't get to read through all of the other comments, but I do have to say that states are discriminating against online retailers with these types of laws.

My day job is working for a distributor that sells items to manufacturers in our state.

When a customer from our territory calls one of the companies that our company reps we receive a commission. Our industry is a little behind the curve when it comes to doing business online, I can be fairly safe in saying that there are not any online affiliates involved.

The flaw here is if online retailers are required to collect taxes because of their affiliates in a particular state, then companies with traditional distributors in a state should also be required to collect tax. In the case of our company we are not employed by the company we rep so therefore the company we rep is not required to collect sales tax in our state. That is unless they have an office, employee, warehouse, or anything else giving them "nexus" here.

By: Lorne Fade

Lorne Fade — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 01:07:19 +0000

But Nicky, I live in Canada, we dont have laws!