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Last year, state legislators passed a law making Amazon responsible for collecting sales taxes because it had a network of local affiliates - North Carolina residents who linked to products on their blogs, promoted Web shopping deals and offered coupons.
Before the change was adopted, Amazon cut its ties to those North Carolina affiliates. The company also stopped working with affiliates in Rhode Island and Colorado because of collection-enforcement laws passed in those states.
Who didn't see that coming? The obvious end result of any such law is less revenue for the residents of the state because no company is going to deal with the hassle of sales taxes in exchange for the limited income generated by affiliates. It's just not economically viable. All the state legislatures are doing is hurting their own citizenry.
But then that's nothing new.
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