Potentially scary implications

[raymor]

Originally Posted by lassiter

Standard disclaimer: I'm not a lawyer.

I wonder if this new NY State law could end up applying to sponsor affiliates. Would affiliates be responsible for collecting and reporting sales tax on sales we send to a sponsor? Because this law seems to raise that possibility. |confused|

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04...es_amazon_tax/

The potential new law does NOT make affiliates responsible for collecting or
reporting taxes. They are saying that the sponsor should collect and
report taxes on sales to New York customers because the affiliates in New York
constitute a "physical presence". The Supreme Court doesn't like to be
messed with and this is clearly NOT what they meant when they said "physical
presence", so if passed the law will be overturned.