Way around Amazon and other merchant's policy to not work with NY based affiliate marketers due to sales tax law?


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Until NY state came up with the internet sales tax law, affiliate marketing was the primary way I generated revenue from my site. Since Amazon and other companies started to stop working with NY based affiliates, my revenue has gone down over 70%.

Is there any way around this to continue working with these merchants?

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asked Mar 11 '14 at 23:58
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Joseph Hager
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When this came about, our coupons business was deeply impacted by it as well (we're in NY too).

In order to bypass this issue, some people create a corporation in Delaware and use that as their base.

They get a virtual office for a physical address in the state (provides you an address and forwards any mail) and start using that entity in affiliate network accounts. You won't have a problem with merchants dropping you anymore (until of course Delaware decides to bring the same law :)

Side note: It's worth consulting both an accountant and a lawyer on this.

answered Mar 12 '14 at 01:50
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Nishank Khanna
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