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Comment on Updates on California and Hawaii #advertisingtax by Updates on Hawaii and California #advertisingtax | Affiliate Marketing News | Legacy Learning Systems Affiliate Marketing Blog

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 21:32:26 +0000

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Comment on Updates on California and Hawaii #advertisingtax by Matt McWilliams

Matt McWilliams — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 20:55:12 +0000

This is awesome news!

It is so good to see that our efforts were not wasted.

Comment on New Product: iPet Glucose Monitoring by Natural Pet Care

Natural Pet Care — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 14:51:11 +0000

Great post! I love that you are taking the time to write about pet care. This is something near and dear to my heart. Take care.

Comment on California “Advertising Tax” is back. We need your help. by Kevin

Kevin — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 09:23:39 +0000

Thanks for informing me about this issue. I read recently that Amazon dropped the state of NC for something similar to this.

As a website owner who started not that long ago, this is the sort of thing that makes me wonder what I would do if one day, with a signature from someone in power, everything I have worked so hard for one day vanishes. I guess that’s life. Gotta prepare and fight.

Well, I sent the assembly member of my district the letter that you wrote out. Hopefully if enough people do this, it will make a difference. We will have to wait and see.

Comment on California “Advertising Tax” is back. We need your help. by Brian Littleton

Brian Littleton — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 15:55:36 +0000

Bill,

I agree that the tax needs to be collected somehow. I’m in support of any fair proposal to make that happen. The fact of the matter is that Californians owe this tax already, it isn’t a new tax, it is just one that they have not been paying voluntarily (same with everyone from all States).

Unfortunately, they have chosen to use a form of advertising to force businesses to collect tax. Instead of collecting the tax, they are instead terminating relationships with those advertisers who are almost wholly made up of small businesses.

This hurts small California businesses greatly. It also targets one type of advertising only, and arbitrarily puts the burden on them.

From there, California could just say… “If you have a lawyer in California, you have nexus.” … or maybe “If you search on Google, you have nexus”, etc… it is a very poor and unfair way to establish the nexus and force the tax collection.

Comment on California “Advertising Tax” is back. We need your help. by Bill Couture

Bill Couture — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 04:07:17 +0000

It would be a good thing for most California internet businesses if the state would impose sales tax collection rules on out of state sites. Currently, these out of states have an unfair price advantage as in state sellers already have to collect sales tax. Doing this will be a major help to local business both by leveling the playing field and by giving the government needed revenue. Contrary to the suggested letter it will increase sales of California business.

Comment on California “Advertising Tax” is back. We need your help. by Franklin Banker

Franklin Banker — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 22:42:05 +0000

Great work here. I read your sample letter and I have a suggestion for another paragraph covering the fact that current online business website owners pay state income tax on their business revenue income. Here is what I suggest adding at the end of the letter for them to think about.

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Finally, there are literally tens of thousands of small business website owners in this state that currently pay income tax on the revenue they earn, so this state will lose that revenue. Therefore I ask; Have you done any studies to determine how many of your small business LLCs are paying state tax on income from affiliate marketing or performance marketing? If not, you should do this before taking any action to cause an affiliate to lose his/her status with large online retailers.

This state could end up with a net loss by passing this legislation. I urge you to investigate this matter much more completely before enacting affiliate nexus and attempting to collect sales tax through this proposed new law.

Sincerely,
[Your Name and Signature]

Comment on And the winners are…. by Jason Rubacky

Jason Rubacky — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 19:25:40 +0000

Thanks for hanging with us Nate… Hope you enjoy the digital picture frame!

See ya soon!

Comment on And the winners are…. by Nate

Nate — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 20:19:03 +0000

Thanks ShareASale team, it was great meeting you guys. Enjoy the game tonight. We look forward to working more with you.

Comment on New Product: iPet Glucose Monitoring by Pet Information

Pet Information — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 16:32:09 +0000

Great post. I am hoping you update regularly since I am subscribing to your RSS. Have to take my dogs out now LOL