New York hurting e-Commerce?

[marc77]

New York is attempting to force e-Commerce businesses to pay the New York sales tax on any sale originating from a New York based affiliate.

I wonder how this should technically work ?

Guess that no business will have official New York based affiliates... instead of paying them a commission for done sales, they simply pay a "consultation fee" or something that cannot be associated with affiliate marketing ;-)

Also if an affiliate just forwards visitors to your website (just click-through commissions), it is nearly impossible to know which sales origin from which affiliate. The necessary tracking would be quite tricky.

And I thought that Europe's sales tax system is complex ;-)

[BasicECommerce]

Also if an affiliate just forwards visitors to your website (just click-through commissions), it is nearly impossible to know which sales origin from which affiliate. The necessary tracking would be quite tricky.

The tracking implemented by affiliate programs is no more tricky than any CPC model. The publishers include their ID tag to any of their links which adds a tracking cookie to the visitor's machine to track the sale.

Most of the reporting available even offers what publisher is linked to each conversion. So, everything is really in place to set up paying additional sales taxes. I'm just crossing my fingers it gets over-turned.