Rhode Island Affiliates Banned From Amazon.com Sales 532
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."
I fear that pretty soon... (Score:2, Funny)
...the only Amazon.com affiliates left will be in The Amazon.
Re:Hopefully it will cut down on affiliate-link sp (Score:5, Funny)
Do you know how much superhighways take to maintain? The Internet is the information superhighway, so the taxes go to pay for travel on it. When you drive to Amazon, you're putting wear on the superhighways of the state Amazon is based in, and then Amazon has to drive your order to the affiliate, which puts wear on the superhighways to the affiliate's state. That's a lot of virtual wear!
Re:If they don't use local resources why should th (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Hopefully it will cut down on affiliate-link sp (Score:4, Funny)
Every breath you take... (Score:3, Funny)
Every breath you take
Every move you make
Every click you make
Every step you take
I'll be taxing you
Every single day
Every word you say
Every game you play
Every night you stay
I'll be taxing you
Oh, cant you see
You belong to me
How my poor RIDT aches
With every step you take
Re:Hopefully it will cut down on affiliate-link sp (Score:3, Funny)
Just imagined what that'd be: a tax collector approaches, I grab my shotgun. Sounds fun!