Another example of a tax and spend state over reaching in their tax revenue grab. Confederate Yankee, in North Carolina, received the following email from Amazon:
We are writing from the Amazon Associates Program to notify you that your Associates account has been closed as of June 26, 2009. This is a direct result of the unconstitutional tax collection scheme expected to be passed any day now by the North Carolina state legislature (the General Assembly) and signed by the governor. As a result, we will no longer pay any referral fees for customers referred to Amazon.com or Endless.com after June 26. We were forced to take this unfortunate action in anticipation of actual enactment because of uncertainties surrounding the legislation’s effective date.
Please be assured that all qualifying referral fees earned prior to June 26, 2009 will be processed and paid in full in accordance with our regular referral fee schedule. Based on your account closure date of June 26, 2009, any final payments will be paid by September 1, 2009.
In the event that North Carolina repeals this tax collection scheme, we would certainly be happy to re-open our Associates program to North Carolina residents.
Way to go NC legislature. You just killed the opportunity for your tax paying citizens to supplement their income with Amazon referral fees. As CY put it:
NC Democrats have acted rashly, attempting to use the Associates program as an “in” to tax Amazon’s corporate profits. They were hoping for a big payday.Now they—and we—get nothing.
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