Comments on: Hawaii Inches Forward http://nyaffiliatevoice.com/2009/05/hawaii-inches-forward/ My Life as an Affiliate from New York Tue, 01 May 2012 21:44:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Pete http://nyaffiliatevoice.com/2009/05/hawaii-inches-forward/comment-page-1/#comment-1288 Pete Tue, 19 May 2009 02:33:03 +0000 http://nyaffiliatevoice.com/?p=831#comment-1288 Not to sound self-serving (ok, maybe a little self-serving), but programs like ours - www.accuratetax.com (AccurateTax TaxTools) are meant to take the taxing pain out of the equation for merchants and affiliates alike. A merchant can simply collect the taxes for a given state and remit online as needed. As I said before the issue isn't or rather shouldn't be that collection and reporting are too difficult. merchants will keep selling through affiliates, because a sale is a sale and that's what they care about...give them an easy way to deal with taxes and they won't care as long as sales continue. And think of it this way...if the playing field is level (e.g. local sellers and internet sellers alike are responsible for taxes), then it's going to be affiliates that make the difference for an out-of-state retailer. just my 2 cents. Not to sound self-serving (ok, maybe a little self-serving), but programs like ours – http://www.accuratetax.com (AccurateTax TaxTools) are meant to take the taxing pain out of the equation for merchants and affiliates alike.

A merchant can simply collect the taxes for a given state and remit online as needed. As I said before the issue isn’t or rather shouldn’t be that collection and reporting are too difficult. merchants will keep selling through affiliates, because a sale is a sale and that’s what they care about…give them an easy way to deal with taxes and they won’t care as long as sales continue.

And think of it this way…if the playing field is level (e.g. local sellers and internet sellers alike are responsible for taxes), then it’s going to be affiliates that make the difference for an out-of-state retailer.

just my 2 cents.

]]> By: Melanie http://nyaffiliatevoice.com/2009/05/hawaii-inches-forward/comment-page-1/#comment-1262 Melanie Sat, 16 May 2009 17:51:55 +0000 http://nyaffiliatevoice.com/?p=831#comment-1262 The fact is, merchants will drop affiliates. It happened in NY last year. Thousands of affiliates were terminated from hundreds of programs. The result was thousands of NY affiliates had to scramble to find replacement merchants and sometimes, quality was hard to find. NY affiliates lost thousands of dollars in income that in many cases has yet to be replaced. Amazon has indicated that they will be forced to drop affiliates in some states if the legislation passes. The reason for many merchants is that states all have different taxable products, different rates and in some cases multiple rates within the state. This means many filings and a lot of programing. Smaller merchants will be hard pressed to keep up. The fact is, merchants will drop affiliates. It happened in NY last year. Thousands of affiliates were terminated from hundreds of programs. The result was thousands of NY affiliates had to scramble to find replacement merchants and sometimes, quality was hard to find. NY affiliates lost thousands of dollars in income that in many cases has yet to be replaced.

Amazon has indicated that they will be forced to drop affiliates in some states if the legislation passes. The reason for many merchants is that states all have different taxable products, different rates and in some cases multiple rates within the state. This means many filings and a lot of programing. Smaller merchants will be hard pressed to keep up.

]]> By: Pete http://nyaffiliatevoice.com/2009/05/hawaii-inches-forward/comment-page-1/#comment-1202 Pete Fri, 08 May 2009 01:01:15 +0000 http://nyaffiliatevoice.com/?p=831#comment-1202 I really don't think it's going to be as bad as all that. I mean the reality for a storeowner selling their products is that they want sales. Unless there are an equal or greater number of sales to be had in other states without an affiliate tax law on the books, I doubt a company will drop its affiliates. You may see Amazon balk for a while about this, but they'll get no rhythm from the USSC. Clearly, many other states are moving to this. Couple that with the SSTP and internet taxation is going to happen. The affiliate isn't on the hook for the sales tax collection and reporting the vendor who ultimately sold the goods is, so what's the big concern for affiliates? I really don’t think it’s going to be as bad as all that. I mean the reality for a storeowner selling their products is that they want sales. Unless there are an equal or greater number of sales to be had in other states without an affiliate tax law on the books, I doubt a company will drop its affiliates.

You may see Amazon balk for a while about this, but they’ll get no rhythm from the USSC. Clearly, many other states are moving to this. Couple that with the SSTP and internet taxation is going to happen.

The affiliate isn’t on the hook for the sales tax collection and reporting the vendor who ultimately sold the goods is, so what’s the big concern for affiliates?

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