Comments on: act.ly and the California “Affiliate Tax” http://www.revenews.com/davidlewis/actly-and-the-california-affiliate-tax/ Discussion of Online Advertising, CPA, SEO, Affiliate and Next Generation Marketing Fri, 19 Mar 2010 08:48:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: David Weinrot http://www.revenews.com/davidlewis/actly-and-the-california-affiliate-tax/comment-page-1/#comment-21889 David Weinrot Fri, 26 Jun 2009 18:43:41 +0000 http://www.revenews.com/?p=4051#comment-21889 It seems that there's a serious case of short-sightedness among lawmakers and tax collectors who are facing budget and cash shortfalls. As if it isn't enough that that CA legislators are trying to require retailers to collect CA Sales tax from sales that originate from affiliates domiciled in the state, the city of LA is telling internet and new media companies that they (we) no longer qualify for a previously extended city tax discount. (http://www.revenews.com/davidlewis/actly-and-the-california-affiliate-tax/). Apart from that, as David Lewis correctly observes, publishers that are terminated from affiliate programs can continue promote those retailers and their products and generate revenue by participating in the affiliate programs of comparison shopping engines such as Shopping.com's, PriceGrabbers and Shopzilla's. Business owners will likely response to lawmakers' shortsightedness with their feet (or mice) by moving their businesses to more tax friendly climates or revenue-generating programs that circumvent this issue. It seems that there’s a serious case of short-sightedness among lawmakers and tax collectors who are facing budget and cash shortfalls. As if it isn’t enough that that CA legislators are trying to require retailers to collect CA Sales tax from sales that originate from affiliates domiciled in the state, the city of LA is telling internet and new media companies that they (we) no longer qualify for a previously extended city tax discount. (http://www.revenews.com/davidlewis/actly-and-the-california-affiliate-tax/).

Apart from that, as David Lewis correctly observes, publishers that are terminated from affiliate programs can continue promote those retailers and their products and generate revenue by participating in the affiliate programs of comparison shopping engines such as Shopping.com’s, PriceGrabbers and Shopzilla’s.

Business owners will likely response to lawmakers’ shortsightedness with their feet (or mice) by moving their businesses to more tax friendly climates or revenue-generating programs that circumvent this issue.

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