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It is do or die time to oppose Maryland’s affiliate sales tax clause in the Budget Reconciliation and Financing Act (BRFA).
The committee is meeting this week to determine whether MD resident affiliates will constitute a sales presence (nexus) for out of state merchants making them responsible for collecting sales tax from Maryland-based customers.
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In a matter of months, two affiliate marketing professional organization have launched. Earlier this year, the Performance Marketing Alliance was introduced, and today Affilaite Voice.
I truly believe, now more than ever, that the Affiliate Marketing industry needs more organization to get our good story out there (there are plenty of bad ones) and to [...]

This morning, Amazon notified their affiliates that they will no longer be allowing paid search traffic to be directed to Amazon through their Associates program.
We’re writing to let you know about a change to the Amazon Associates Program. After careful review of how we are investing our advertising resources, we have made the decision [...]

As reported by Shawn Collins at AffiliateTip, Maryland has entered the fray as the newest state to present a bill pushing what’s known as the Amazon Tax.
From the Fiscal and Policy Note, here’s the summary of Maryland Senate Bill SB1071.

Bill Summary: A seller is defined as a person making sales of tangible personal [...]

I love the idea of blog comment systems. I used to love disqus and intensedebate, but I cannot say that any longer.
Whether it’s out of control spam, incompatibilities with themes, poor comment management, lost comments, and now duplicate comments, they’ve pushed me away.
I’m like a beaten spouse that keeps going back for more.
I just [...]

The state of Tennessee has legislation in process to incorporate the “Amazon Tax” into their Sales and Use Tax Code.
This legislation is in both the House and Senate:

State Bill 1741, sponsored by Senator Beverly Marerro

House Bill 1947, sponsored by Rep. Johnny Shaw

Here’s the text of both Bills:
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE [...]

North Carolina has joined the Amazon Tax club with their Senate Bill 487 and House bill 558. They appear to be modifying existing mail order laws to include “remote” sales, which is what they’re calling affiliate sales.
The following is from the Senate bill, though the House Bill reads the same. Underline is new [...]

Why do you use twitter?
Is it a game for getting the most followers?
Or is it to keep tabs on certain people, and what they’re doing?
Or is it to follow ideas?
I Hate Love Twitter
You may not know this, but I am the #1 Twitter hater. Don’t believe me? Out of over 16 million [...]

I just installed the Kindle iPhone app and all I can say is, wow.
I’ve owned an Amazon Kindle for over a year now. I back-ordered it last Christmas and got it in January 2008, and it has been a great gadget to have and it’s been good for a lot of reading that I [...]

I am not a resident of California, but as a member of the online publishing industry with so many of my colleagues who stand to be impacted, I am compelled to write this letter.
California is in a state of financial crisis and of course any effort to increase state revenue is expected and understandable. [...]