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Re: Amazon Turns Gears of Internet Tax Wars
Posted by: Mike Pearson 2009-07-02 21:24:06

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More companies are joining in the fight over Internet taxation begun by Amazon.com. Blue Nile and Overstock.com have joined the Web's largest retailer in dropping affiliate programs in North Carolina and Rhode Island, according to numerous press reports. Amazon also reportedly dropped its affiliate program in Hawaii. Affiliate programs allow Web site operators to earn money from product sales by setting up online stores and funneling customers to the parent site.

Wow
Posted by: katkiller 2009-07-02 21:35:22 In reply to: Mike Pearson

Those affiliates already pay income taxes on the profits they get from those sites. So states are really shooting themselves over nothing really. They are loosing more than the few bucks they are hoping to gain. Really, why kill the internet when its feeding people?