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May 24, 2012

California Affiliates Get a One Year Reprieve

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After having my sites offline for over a week, I’m happy to return and share some reasonably good news that pertains to the Affiliate Nexus Tax. Thanks to Amazon and other retailers in California, new legislation was passed that repeals the tax temporarily. The retailers must lobby for a federal tax solution to be implemented [...]

Amazon Axes 10,000 California Affiliates

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Shortly after California governor Jerry Brown signed the budget which includes the affiliate nexus tax, Amazon affiliates in that state received the following email from Amazon: Hello, For well over a decade, the Amazon Associates Program has worked with thousands of California residents. Unfortunately, a potential new law that may be signed by Governor Brown [...]

Canadian Affiliate Marketers: Did You File GST on Those Commissions?

Now that we’re 2 weeks past tax day in Canada (April 30th), I thought I’d write about an issue that directly affects Canadian affiliates and online merchants. So, be warned – for the purposes of this post the spelling may seem a little weird, like ‘cheque’ and ‘humour’ and I might even have to throw [...]

Overstock to Reinstate California Affiliates

Hot on the heels of announcing that they would join the lineup of Internet merchants dumping their affiliates in California, Hawaii, North Carolina and Rhode Island – states that plan to tax Internet referals – Overstock reversed its decision to drop its California-based affiliate advertisers following an assurance from Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Office that his [...]

Get a Tax Break – Promote the March of Dimes

Friday’s Kolimbo Merchant spotlight included the following new merchant notice: We are offering you an opportunity to partner with March of Dimes for the health of the future, in return March of Dimes is willing to acknowledge you as an affiliate partner, annual acknowledgements of donation that you can use as you see fit. There [...]