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Amazon Ends Relationship with North Carolina Affiliates
North Carolina residents who are Amazon Affiliates recently received an email telling them the company would be ending its relationships with them due to the North Carolina state legislature getting ready to, as Amazon puts it, "enact an unconstitutional tax collection scheme."
What the North Carolina government is proposing would apply sales tax to purchases made through online affiliates based in NC. It has not yet passed.
Amazon Closes NC Affiliate Program, Before Vital Tax Legislation Vote
By Andy Beal
It appears as though Amazon’s email to affiliates regarding North Carolina’s pending taxes was not a bluff. I just received a follow-up email from the company saying it has decided to shut down its affiliate program in the state, as of today.
North Carolina Following New York's Lead With Affiliate Taxes
By Andy Beal
It appears that North Carolina is about to follow New York’s lead and implement a tax collection scheme that will see Amazon.com shut down its Associates affiliate program in the state. Today, all Amazon Associates in NC received this gloomy email from the online retailer:
Carolina's Google Tax Breaks Irk Locals
The North Carolina Institute for Constitutional Law (NCICL) has called the $165 million in tax incentives for Google "unusual" and challenged the deal in court.
29,000 Sex Offenders Found On MySpace
The social networking site culled some 29,000 profiles from its userbase after finding they had been created by registered sex offenders.
Google Takes On NC Telecoms
By Doug Caverly
Once again, it appears that Google’s looking out for the little guy. Only in this instance, the “little guy” is both the average consumer and local governments. According to Google - and Intel, Alcatel-Lucent, and Tropos Networks - a bill in the North Carolina General Assembly has the potential to be a monopoly-maker.
Oversight Unseen In Google Carolina Deal
North Carolina's Caldwell County ponied up $250 million in tax breaks to Google to entice it to build a data center there but didn't study whether the deal made good financial sense.
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