Comments on: NY’s “Amazon Tax” Takes First Casualty: Overstock Affiliates

By: designer jewelry girl

designer jewelry girl — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 11:38:00 +0000

This is good news for me.

By: Adrian Bye

Adrian Bye — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 18:52:28 +0000

Patrick Byrne, the CEO of Overstock shared great insight on this tax issue in a recent interview. He also talked about how affiliates can become involved.

http://meetinnovators.com/2008.....rstockcom/

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By: cate

cate — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 17:48:20 +0000

WWD believes this tax will have the unintended consequence of of halting the growth of — and investment in — social media sites. That means blogs, bookmarking, social networking, search. Bad days in the Valley.

http://wwd.com/issue/article/125629

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Fri, 16 May 2008 00:31:32 +0000

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By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 15 May 2008 07:03:29 +0000

NY State provides services for brick and mortar stores. Other than a tiny bit of road space, what does NY do to deserve these taxes?

It’s amazing how much my tax bill has increased lately. Inflation is driving everyone into higher tax brackets (they’re not inflation-indexed). But, gov’t seems to be getting worse and worse.

It’s amazing how inefficient gov’t is compared to startups. Here in LA, over 21,000 city workers make over $70k base and over 6,000 make over $100K (and many much, much more). Yet most don’t seem to do all that much.

By: tim

tim — Thu, 15 May 2008 05:15:07 +0000

Wade: Nice spin. The other way to look at it is that little mom-n-pop web stores have an advantage over big brick-n-mortar giants. (It’s easier to set up a small webpage than a small b&m store, BTW. That’s why small websites could grow into big websites in only a couple years.) They should be encouraging people to start websites in NY, not driving them away, if they want tax money from them.

This tax does seem inconsistent: states have never taxed mail-order purchases. Why does using TCP/IP make it more taxable than using POTS?

If NY is running a deficit, that’s all the more reason not to make stupid tax policies that will drive away business. I used to live in NY, and it had by far the craziest state tax of any state I’ve ever lived in. Back around 2000, they had a form where you were supposed to declare all internet purchases on your state income tax form so they could tax those; I don’t think anybody ever did, which is probably why they’re trying this.

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When Will New York Introduce A Google Tax? | Andy Beard - Niche Marketing — Thu, 15 May 2008 03:03:20 +0000

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By: Wade

Wade — Thu, 15 May 2008 02:37:23 +0000

Am I the only one who’s going to take the other side of this?

With more and more shopping going online, the states are probably missing out on much needed tax dollars. If they don’t get it from sales tax, they’ll have to find another way to tax you.

And let’s face it, what’s really the difference between buying an item in a store, or online these days? Its giving the big web sites an unfair advantage over the “mom and pop stores” on an already uneven playing field.

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Thu, 15 May 2008 02:26:07 +0000

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By: Roger Jackson

Roger Jackson — Thu, 15 May 2008 01:19:26 +0000

I suspect the more fleet of foot affiliates will re-0register as new Overstock affiliates, but with a non-NY address. I mean, how hard is it for someone in NY to set up a PO Box in an adjacent state. Problem solved.

By: Andy

Andy — Thu, 15 May 2008 00:37:20 +0000

They should tell customers they can’t ship to NY, or only ship to NY one day a week or something, and mobilize the larger portion of the population: the portion that purchases.

By: AW

AW — Thu, 15 May 2008 00:04:01 +0000

Meanwhile, affiliates who made their living online are now shafted!

Win win for everyone!

(I mean that literally!)

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By: Ryan Klesko

Ryan Klesko — Wed, 14 May 2008 23:28:00 +0000

NY is just a lame state. They got no Silicon Valley, just a bunch of corporate stiffs in Wall Street. So lame. So so so so so so LAME. What idiots.

By: Afroloop

Afroloop — Wed, 14 May 2008 23:21:52 +0000

This is classic greed on the part of the government. Typical in every way. I’m sure in a matter of years there will be no safe haven to Internet shopping, politicians will find a way to get more money from us and once the tax is in place there is no way in hell it will ever go away again.

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Wed, 14 May 2008 22:10:18 +0000

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Overstock, Amazon fighting new state tax « LI Biz Blog — Wed, 14 May 2008 21:20:31 +0000

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By: Ken Berger

Ken Berger — Wed, 14 May 2008 20:45:09 +0000

It’s also interesting because NYC has been pushing for a while to abolish all sales tax on clothes and other shopping (in a bid to keep the city buzzing w/ shoppers and grab some business back from NJ and other places that have no tax). Check your receipt after shopping in NYC these days and you’ll see no entry for sales tax.

The Amazon tax seems to go in the other direction.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Wed, 14 May 2008 20:41:31 +0000

I would hope that the incompetent fools in NY’s government responsible for this nonsense are propmptly fired. It would be only fair in regards to the lost business. I’m so glad I moved out of this retarded state last year

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Wed, 14 May 2008 20:29:25 +0000

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By: Niraj

Niraj — Wed, 14 May 2008 20:24:53 +0000

Between the Amazon lawsuit, more stores like this dropping NY affiliates, and increasing numbers of annoyed NY affiliates, it’ll be interesting to see how long until NY backs off of this tax. I’m sure it’ll be a question of if and not when.

By: Blackbolt

Blackbolt — Wed, 14 May 2008 20:10:35 +0000

F NY! No tax for you, come back…. NEVER!

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 14 May 2008 20:07:29 +0000

Just to be clear. I closed the company down and came to California. I also lived in NYS before Canada. Glad not to be back there either.

The goal is to move away from these people and to go to the warmest, most care free business environment possible in North America. Except Mexico, that just sucks.