Amazon Shutting Down Colorado-Based Associates Over Sales Tax Issue

from the tax-avoidance dept

You may remember last summer that Amazon shut down its affiliate programs in North Carolina, Hawaii and Rhode Island in response to new laws being put in place in those states, which would effectively make any Amazon affiliate an "official" representative of the company in that state, thus requiring that Amazon start collecting sales tax. This followed a similar mess in New York the year before. This is really short-sighted on the part of the states, pushing for additional tax revenue (of course). But it stretches the definition of what it means to have a physical presence in a state to the point where someone who is running an ad for you (all that an affiliate really is) is treated as an employee.

It appears that some states still haven't gotten the message. Michael Long sends over the email he received from Amazon, alerting him that Colorado has now passed a similar law, meaning that no one in Colorado can be an Amazon affiliate any more. Though Amazon is being a bit disingenuous in saying "no other state has similar rules," when other states have, indeed, passed similar rules, and many others are considering similar rules as well.

Of course, this strategy does risk backfiring on Amazon, as it's effectively using its affiliates as pawns in trying to get the state government to repeal this law. The alternative, of course, is that the affiliates just jump ship to another provider.
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  • icon
    sehlat (profile), 8 Mar 2010 @ 4:35pm

    "jump ship"?

    That rather assumes that other providers will accept associates from states with such laws and have to go to the expense and trouble of keeping track of bunchteen federal, state, and local tax regimes.

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    zellamayzao, 8 Mar 2010 @ 4:43pm

    And thats why....

    I tend to spend the rest of my life in delware where there is no sales tax. Just yet anyway. Im sure some money hungry politician will have some great idea as a way to make delaware more money by imposing a sales tax when all we probably really needed is to have some fiscal responsibility with the morons running my state.

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    • identicon
      chsmitt, 8 Aug 2011 @ 8:59pm

      Re: And thats why....

      Exactly how much money was this supposed to raise for the state? 4 other states tried this same thing before Colorado, and Amazon as well as others cancelled their affiliate marketing agreements in those states too. It was insanity for the lawmakers in Colorado to expect anything different. What a waste of time and resources...from Chris of UK jobs and US jobs thanks for sharing such an informative info like this.Very interesting indeed.

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    Haywood (profile), 8 Mar 2010 @ 4:53pm

    Don't they compare notes

    So far no one has collected a penny from these failed attempts, and likely have lost revenue as the affiliates will do less business in the state, maybe even shut down completely. If the latter is the case they lose big time trading taxpayers for unemployment recipients. Not to mention all the sales tax they lose as these former wage earners go on the poverty plan to survive.

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  • identicon
    AZ Shopper, 8 Mar 2010 @ 6:26pm

    Confused

    I know that Amazon has a huge distribution center/warehouse in Goodyear, AZ (30 miles west of Phoenix). However, they don't charge sales tax in Arizona.

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    FarmerBob (profile), 8 Mar 2010 @ 6:43pm

    That'll explain why there was no tax on the Amazon purchase I made a couple of days ago. But the way I heard it was to happen in Colorado, was that the vendor was to inform you of the tax on your purchase, you are to keep track of it and you at tax time, have to fill out an additional form and pay the tax with your Income Tax.

    I didn't think it would work either.

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    • identicon
      Anonymous Coward, 8 Mar 2010 @ 7:17pm

      Re:

      I am pretty darn sure it works this way in a lot of places where you have to pay sale tax for your state if none was collected at the time of purchase. I did not know about this till an audit (hit me while living in 2 different states).

      link to this | view in chronology ]

      • identicon
        Lauren, 25 Jul 2011 @ 8:37pm

        Re: Re:

        I would have expected this... but in all honesty, Amazon is big enough that they hardly need affiliates anymore.

        Lauren

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    Mike C. (profile), 8 Mar 2010 @ 7:13pm

    A little sloppy this time Mike...

    While I normally agree and like your discussion of issues, I think you missed a few points on this one:

    - Colorado is NOT requiring Amazon to collect sales tax due to an affiliate presence or "nexus". The new requirement is that Amazon must INFORM THE CUSTOMER of the tax they should be paying. I believe the intent is to have the customers pay the tax as a "use tax" with their income tax filing.
    - Additionally, for online merchants making more than $100,000, Colorado can request data on annual purchases broken out by individual residents, but not individual transactions.
    - Any association between Colorado associates and sales tax collection was actually REMOVED from the bill

    The way I see it, Amazon is doing this as a political statement and not as a way to side-step new tax collection requirements. They will still have to code sales tax calculations for Colorado whether they have affiliates or not. They just don't have to collect said tax.... yet.

    Additionally, while you feel their "no other state" comment is "disingenuous", I believe it to be true. Is there another state that requires online merchants to calculate but not collect sales tax as well as track total sales by individual per year?

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  • identicon
    Freedom, 8 Mar 2010 @ 9:57pm

    About time...

    One of the great things about Amazon and other large multi-state online companies is that they are equals or maybe even stronger than those folks that want to add taxes at the state level. It is rare that you see a company or a group that can stand up against ever increasing tax collections. Sure I understand that this isn't technically a new tax, but it is great to see a company stand up and go toe to toe with the tax whores.

    Freedom

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  • identicon
    Anonymous Coward, 8 Mar 2010 @ 11:01pm

    Amazon should be principled enough to pull out of New York. But they won't, cause New York has 19 million people.

    link to this | view in chronology ]

  • identicon
    Andrew D. Todd, 9 Mar 2010 @ 3:48am

    Amazon is Deliberately Killing Off the Affiliate Programs.

    I suspect "affiliate programs" have outlived their usefulness for Amazon. Affiliate programs were useful at a time when most people were not accustomed to buying things online. However, the market is approaching saturation. Suppose you see an affiliate link on a website, and click through to an Amazon page. You can then copy and paste the product description somewhere else. For example, you can copy and paste it into an E-Bay page, and this is less difficult than setting up a new buyer account, if you don't already happen to have an Amazon account. It is only easy to buy from Amazon if you are already an Amazon customer, that is, if your name, address, and credit card number are already on file. Amazon may very well have come to the conclusion that an affiliate program is an exercise in paying commissions on sales it would have gotten anyway. Amazon's intransigence is rather like Google's intransigence vis-a-vis China. I think Amazon decided internally that they would lower the boom at the first sign of trouble.

    As for online merchants, a serious online merchant is willing to _move_ to an advantageous state. Moving to a more favorable tax regime is less risky than moving to take up a new job (which may turn out to be an optical illusion), or to enroll in a school. Again, I doubt that Amazon is really unhappy about weeding out the amateurs, the ones who are unwilling to install suitable automation to get their processing costs down.

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    enrolled agent exam, 9 Mar 2010 @ 6:59am

    States in Trouble

    Don't expect AZ to be the last. CA is working on an "Amazon" tax of their own. Fortunately, the Governator veto'd it the last time around.

    link to this | view in chronology ]

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    Greg Knaddison (profile), 9 Mar 2010 @ 7:38am

    the trend is headed - but which way

    As more and more people buy online our states/cities will get less and less revenue from local sales tax. Eventually I think that all cities and states will start having similar laws requiring online merchants to advise and/or collect the taxes.

    Rather than fighting this the merchants should figure out how to best support it. If Amazon said "OK, we'll do this, but we want Colorado to make the process dead easy." then that would be a real win for all internet retailers.

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    • identicon
      Ryan, 9 Mar 2010 @ 8:19am

      Re: the trend is headed - but which way

      How is it a win for retailers to have to charge more for sales tax - or for the public, for that matter? There is absolutely no reason whatsoever to charge sales tax online, anymore than there's a reason for the government to impose a tax on blondes - to get more money, which more often than not doesn't work thanks to that nasty Laffer curve. Sales taxes were originally ostensibly imposed to cover the costs of infrastructure needed to travel to the store location; part of what makes the internet so great is that this overhead no longer exists. Paying sales taxes on the internet is just like paying CD prices for digital music or paying for online newspaper stories, except that in this case there isn't even a special interest to be harmed by it.

      The answer is not to ask the public to bend over everytime politicians want to impose a new tax, but to ask politicians not to spend more every year.

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      • icon
        nasch (profile), 9 Mar 2010 @ 8:32am

        Re: Re: the trend is headed - but which way

        Sales taxes were originally ostensibly imposed to cover the costs of infrastructure needed to travel to the store location; part of what makes the internet so great is that this overhead no longer exists.

        That's not entirely true - the item is still driven from somewhere to your house. But maybe the shipping company is paying taxes to cover that.

        link to this | view in chronology ]

        • icon
          Michael Long (profile), 9 Mar 2010 @ 2:06pm

          Re: Re: Re: the trend is headed - but which way

          That impact is negligible.

          Would you rather have one truck on the road making least-distance-travelled optimized deliveries to 50 people, or have those 50 different people all climbing into their SUVs and heading off to 50 different destinations to buy something?

          The later has significantly more impact, wouldn't you agree?

          Sales tax also helps cover the services (roads, sewage, police, fire, etc.) provided to all of those local stores and businesses.

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  • identicon
    known coward, 9 Mar 2010 @ 8:35am

    Amazon should

    collect sales taxes for the appropriate state based on the ship too address. It is past the time for internet sales to have an advantage over brick and morter shops.

    You can be against sales taxes, that is fine, but as to who has to collect them, it is a no brainer. The tax has to be collected by every retailer in the world who sells in the US.

    link to this | view in chronology ]

  • identicon
    Jim H, 9 Mar 2010 @ 9:36am

    Tax Until There is Nothing Left

    Don't blame Amazon. The state of Colorado caused the "layoff" of 4,200 people.

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    btr1701 (profile), 9 Mar 2010 @ 12:00pm

    Affiliates

    The Virginia legislature is also considering a bill to require Amazon to start collecting state sales tax based on the affiliate-as-employee theory.

    I guess there won't be any Virginia affiliates for much longer, either.

    link to this | view in chronology ]

  • icon
    Overcast (profile), 9 Mar 2010 @ 1:59pm

    Yet another problem - created by politicians.

    It seems politicians create more problems, than they solve.

    link to this | view in chronology ]

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    sjclynn, 9 Mar 2010 @ 4:38pm

    The CO law is different

    The strategy taken by the states led by NY was to create a business nexus based on the existence of the affiliate. In CO the legislation doesn't involve the affiliates but places requirements on online businesses selling into the state.

    The law requires the business to notify customers in CO that they owe tax to the state, send them and annual summary and, if the company does over $100K in a year, submit the buyer's information to the state. I suppose that we could call that the "rat on" provision.

    What I am at a loss to understand is, what gives Colorado the right to pass legislation that that specifies what a business with no business nexus in the state must do? How are they going to enforce it? Isn't this a little like Italy convicting Google execs?

    Then there is the privacy concern. I am not sure that I am comfortable with a business sending a list, or even a summary, of what I purchased from them to the state government or anyone else for that matter. How long before we need to submit a SSN to buy a book?

    link to this | view in chronology ]

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  • identicon
    Stu, 20 Jul 2010 @ 1:08pm

    I don't think the amazon affiliates program has outlived its usefulness. It is true that people no longer need to be convinced to purchase items on-line, but amazon is facing lots and lots of competition on-line now. Also, iPad textbooks are competing with Kindle titles.

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    JD Williams, 6 Sep 2010 @ 11:43am

    I think this will hurt the amount people making via amazon in the Colorado area.

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  • identicon
    content writer, 10 Nov 2010 @ 10:02am

    Tax and other annoyances

    I was one of the affiliates affected by this. It's an annoyance, but I never made huge amuonts of money from Amazon's affiliate program so not a huge deal.

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    • identicon
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      Re: Tax and other annoyances

      You are right!
      She sent out an email. It might be synced up with the physical shipments, so you'll get an email first about your shipment, then a few days later an email with the download link.

      link to this | view in chronology ]

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    Ridiculous that Amazon should carry on this game of tax avoidance. If it wants state business, it should pay the taxes in that state. Otherwise, stay out, and stop destroying independent booksellers.

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    I don't think it is fair they are passing this rule which will effect everyone who wanted to be an Amazon affiliate in Colorado. How ridiculous that you have to be classed as "an official representative" when you are an affiliate!

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    The law requires the business to notify customers in CO that they owe tax to the state, send them and annual summary and, if the company does over $100K in a year, submit the buyer's information to the state. I suppose that we could call that the "rat on" provision.

    What I am at a loss to understand is, what gives Colorado the right to pass legislation that that specifies what a business with no business nexus in the state must do? How are they going to enforce it? Isn't this a little like Italy convicting Google execs?

    Then there is the privacy concern. I am not sure that I am comfortable with a business sending a list, or even a summary, of what I purchased from them to the state government or anyone else for that matter. How long before we need to submit a SSN to buy a book?

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