Comment Re:What about NY? (Score 3, Informative) 411
NY state does a tax on residents that purchase things from someone online with a NY affiliate. So if I live in NY (which I actually do) and buy an item from Amazon then I have to pay tax on it. This only affects the people of NY.
From what I understand the proposed NC law actually says that anything sold to anyone via an NC affiliate link would need to be taxed. So if someone lived in PA and bought something from Amazon, if they went through a NC affiliate link, it would be taxed by NC. This is not only taxing those items purchased by NC residents, but also people in other locations.
To make matters worse, if I lived in NY and then bought something via an NC affiliate, it would be taxed by both NY and NC.
This is why I suspect that Amazon cutoff the NC affiliates but not the NY ones.
From what I understand the proposed NC law actually says that anything sold to anyone via an NC affiliate link would need to be taxed. So if someone lived in PA and bought something from Amazon, if they went through a NC affiliate link, it would be taxed by NC. This is not only taxing those items purchased by NC residents, but also people in other locations.
To make matters worse, if I lived in NY and then bought something via an NC affiliate, it would be taxed by both NY and NC.
This is why I suspect that Amazon cutoff the NC affiliates but not the NY ones.
