Tax Hikes Boost Online Sales?
Your Affiliate Marketing - Will Sales Tax Hikes Help You?
California raised the state sales tax 1 percent today. This brings average local tax rates to nearly 9 percent and makes the California rate nearly the highest in the nation.
Tax-free shopping has always lured people to buy online instead of at the local store. Will this make more people buy from your website? What’s going on with online sales tax right now?
As attorney Richard Stim, writing for Nolo and a source at AllBusiness.com point out, an online retailer with a store, warehouse or office in your state - must collect sales tax from you. If they don’t have a building in the state where you live, buyers and retailers just might not be forced to pay the tax.
If the retailer doesn’t collect the tax, you’re supposed to pay it to your state as a “use” tax. States have typically only bothered enforcing this for large items like cars, boats, laptops and such.
Right now, states completely without sales tax include Oregon, New Hampshire, Montana, Delaware and Alaska.
New York state has a sales tax law as of June 2008 that retailers must pay sales tax on where the item is shipped to, along with a tax on shipping and handling.
As of February 2009, it looks like California may soon have a tax affecting the internet affiliate. *Gulp* this means all of us - the website owners who sell things online for others.
Paying sales tax for online purchases is largely still voluntary. Fearing their state will suddenly demand uncollected sales taxes from previous years, some retailers have volunteered. Other retailers have sued the state to avoid sales tax rules.
What about the people that make money online as affiliates? What about you? More online entrepreneurs might just start checking whether they, or the company has to charge sales tax or not before signing up with affiliate programs.
Affiliate marketing has long been a way I’ve used for making money on the internet. I’m sure it’ll still be profitable for awhile.
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Mike,
I found the theme at…http://topwpthemes.com/e-wallet/
…but I changed it around considerably. I didn’t like how large the graphic was at the top. I didn’t like all the advertising boxes. I’m still changing it around.
I’ll have to make a post explaining just what I did. Thanks for the idea.
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