Posted on 06/26/2009 6:37:55 PM PDT by lowbridge
Retailer Amazon.com has cut off its relationship with affiliates in North Carolina effective today, report people who have been involved in the company’s marketing program.
Affiliates helped Amazon sell by advertising books, music and other goods on their Web sites. If a customer clicked through those links and bought something on the Web site, the affiliate received a share of that sale.
“We are writing from the Amazon Associates Program to notify you that your Associates account has been closed as of June 26, 2009,” reads and e-mail Amazon sent to its affiliates today. “This is a direct result of the unconstitutional tax collection scheme expected to be passed any day now by the North Carolina state legislature (the General Assembly) and signed by the governor.”
The tax provision that Amazon objects to would apply sales tax to purchases made through such click-through transactions from Web sites run by affiliates based in North Carolina.
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There’s a reason they call NC “New York South”. Someone better get a handle on that place quick.
Coming to your state in the very near future! I sell books on Amazon as an additional income stream for our household...the writing has been on the wall for a while. Our states are in dire straights and they are going to wring every red cent out of all of us to keep their ponzi schemes afloat.
Please! Everyone buy something from me before 0bama puts me out of business! Jerk.
However, I APPLAUD Amazon for doing this. Screw Mother Government.
Good for Amazon!
Internet sales versus sales from brick-and-mortar stores. Over $140B in untaxed sales is a lot of potential state tax revenue.
Eventually it will not matter where you by a widget, it will be taxed. And with sales tax, stores that have a brick-and-mortar location in a state must collect sales tax on their sales over the internet also.
Just happens that Amazon has no brick-and-mortar stores except possibly in NY (?) if anywhere.
Unemployment rate 11.1% with no end in sight.
Don’t worry, they’ll make it up in new government jobs!
They don’t want all that pesky affiliate income anyway. All those damn capitalists do nothing but ruin the socialist utopia.
Over $140B in untaxed sales is a lot of potential government.
Just a small correction..
here that ya greedy tax collectors?
I got my copy of the email this morning. :-(
ping
Amazon goes Galt!
The illegal move by N.C. political hacks just cost North Carolinian entrepreneurs big bucks.
Only if that sale is to an in-State destination. Out-of-State there is no need to collect sales tax.
People buying items from out-of-State are supposed to report their own use tax to the State, annually. It's actually a law in most States that collect sales taxes. The fact that most people do NOT pay those taxes (or even report them) should not mean the out-of-State vendor must collect those taxes.
California is about to do the same thing....This affects a lot of folks....to the ill
WAY TO GO AMAZON!!!
Gutsy move. I’m sure the tax-hikers in NC expected Amazon to bend over and take it, but Amazon decided to play hard ball. Outstanding move, and even better doing it prior to the vote...so that the money-grabbers can see the impact of what they’re doing.
I’ve always that 10 or 15 years ago, when Florida filed the nation’s first lawsuit against tobacco companies, that the companies should have all packed up and left the state...saying it was an unfriendly business environment. Then the smokers would have hopped in their cars, driven to border states and bought their cigs there and paid taxes there. It would have hit the Florida government right in the pocketbook...the only place they would notice it. But no, the companies “settled” and the people of Florida got to pay the settlement in a (big) hidden tax.
You have it partly right.
Out-of-state sales ... meaning a Texas company ships to NY customer?
If the Texas store has a store in NY it has representation in both states and would need collect the proper states tax and remit it to the state taxing authority.
Lets take a Sears, they have representation in virtually every state. The tax applies at the destination when the sale is shipped from one state to another.
If Sears doesn’t charge it, then the way the laws are written, the Use tax comes into play. Meaning the customer owes it and can be billed by the State for the tax plus penalty and interest. many states do not go after the consumer but legally could do so.
You have it partly right.
Out-of-state sales ... meaning a Texas company ships to NY customer?
If the Texas store has a store in NY it has representation in both states and would need collect the proper states tax and remit it to the state taxing authority.
Lets take a Sears, they have representation in virtually every state. The tax applies at the destination when the sale is shipped from one state to another.
If Sears doesn’t charge it, then the way the laws are written, the Use tax comes into play. Meaning the customer owes it and can be billed by the State for the tax plus penalty and interest. many states do not go after the consumer but legally could do so.
It seems much of the state of North Carolina has been taken over by the Durham/Raleigh/Chapel Hill/Cary mentality...
NO good will come from that...
I grew up in Miss. All my friends and family were very conservative. One close friend moved from Miss. to Ala. and was still conservative. He later moved to N.C. for awhile before returning to Miss. Upon returning he and his wife were liberal. They stayed that way for years.
He recently told me that Obama had driven him back into the conservative fold.
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