I know there are still merchants out there who made some bad decisions due to a knee jerk reaction to the New York Amazon Tax Law. Some cancelled all their New York affiliates, while others gave bad advice such as telling NY affiliates to incorporate in another state, then reapply. I feel pretty certain there are also merchants out there that are still confused about what to do about the New York Tax Law and have their heads in the sand, hoping this will all just blow over and they won’t have to deal with it. Due to the fact the law was so badly written, it’s understandable that there has been a lot of confusion.

One group that’s tried really hard to make sense of this and find possible solutions is a group of New York affiliates that had a meeting in Albany on Monday. See: July 28 Affiliate Meeting re New York Amazon Tax Solutions

Today I got a more detailed update about the meeting from Kevin Webster, one of the organizers of that meeting and one of the most involved and educated people regarding all aspects of the New York Amazon Tax. Kevin has some important clarifications and next steps both merchants and NY affiliates should know about.

Points covered include: what merchants need to do to continue to work with their NY affiliates and be able to successfully rebut the presumption of nexus, direct to merchant PPC that promotes the merchant is not rebuttable, incorporating out of state is not rebuttable and more.

The group is also developing a New York Affiliate Tax info package they will hand deliver to merchants at Affiliate Summit.

Read the full post: Findings on Affiliate Status and the Amazon Tax