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NYS Tax Memo

Yearly Proof of Compliance

April 22, 2009

As May 31 is approaching,  many New York affiliates will begin to receive requests to sign the annual “proof of compliance” certificates I wanted to pass along some information I received.  According to our lawyer’s office, the New York State Tax Department is requesting that a line be added to the annual certifications. The line [...]

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Reinstate NY Affiliates Step One

October 22, 2008

While attending Share A Sale Think Tank, a few merchants and affiliates asked me to clarify the steps involved in reinstating NY Affiliates to their programs. These step by step procedure was created by our NY Tax attorney after our meeting on July 28. For the sake of simplicity, I am dividing the steps into separate posts.
These posts [...]

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NY Tax Session at Affiliate Summit

August 5, 2008

The NY Tax Session at Affiliate Summit is on Sunday at 3:00. This is an important session and I urge you to attend.
Who should attend?

Every NY affiliate
Every Network
Every Merchant who sells to NY residents.
Every Affiliate Program manager.
Any affiliate who resides in a state that charges any kind of sales tax.

It is very important session for [...]

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Moving Forward the Solution to NY Tax

July 31, 2008

As I mentioned in my last post, Tax Solution from NY Meeting, we identified the solution to the NY Affiliate tax situation.  The solution was clearly indicated in the memos released by NYS. To briefly recap, out of state merchants  with no other cause of nexus in NY, will need to have a signed agreement on [...]

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Tax Solution from NYS Meeting

July 29, 2008

The NYS Affiliate meeting in Albany on July 28 was a great success. It accomplished several things and it will most likely take a couple posts to get it all in. I will post summaries of the major points over the next couple days. We also had time for some fun and will write about that but [...]

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