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Amazon Cuts Off Colorado Affiliates Because It's Not A State Sales Tax Collector

DENVER -- Amazon is cutting off affiliates that help it sell products in Colorado because of a new way taxes are being collected on online sales. Affiliates earn money by using their Web sites to link customers to online sellers like Amazon. Amazon told affiliates in an e-mail on Monday it would no longer pay them advertising fees because of the new law. "I got that e-mail and I couldn't believe it," Heidi Murphy, an Amazon associate, said. The law says online retailers have to start collecting state sales tax themselves or send annual notices to customers telling them to pay the tax.
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Posted by Editor at March 11, 2010 04:05 AM