Rhode Island Affiliates Banned From Amazon.com Sales

Posted by timothy on Tuesday June 30, 2009 @03:44AM from the oh-just-wait-for-the-feds-to-tax-it-instead dept.

Rand Huck writes "Amazon.com has now added Rhode Island to its blacklist of affiliates in response to its proposed budget changes to enforce a tax on Internet sales, which includes commissions on their affiliate program by content providers based in Rhode Island. The first state to be blacklisted was North Carolina, for the same reason. If you go to a Rhode Island-based or North Carolina-based website that advertises Amazon.com goods as an affiliate, that website will no longer have the goods available because otherwise Amazon.com would be forced to pay sales tax to the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations or the State of North Carolina. The state's rationale is, if someone clicks to buy a good from Amazon.com via a site based in Rhode Island, it's equivalent to buying a good from a brick and mortar chain store located in Rhode Island."

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Re:Hopefully it will cut down on affiliate-link sp by David+Greene · 2009-06-30 06:33 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Amazon is in no way responsible for use taxes for roads if it does not operate its own fleet.
Amazon is responsible because Amazon exists in and benefits from society. Amazon could not do business without all of the things we invest in collectively. Amazon is shirking its responsibility, as are the internet purchasers who don't pay their taxes.

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