Brian Littleton of ShareASale weighs in on how his network plans to address the delicate situation surrounding the NY state tax on affiliate revenues and provides a nice model that other networks may want to consider (both in terms of practice as well as openness with the affiliate community):
ShareASale Blog ยป NY State and the โAffiliate Sales Taxโ Lawโฆ: “Our plan at this time, is to treat any case where a merchant wishes to terminate NY affiliates with great care and caution. If a merchant requests to do this, there is little we can do to stop them – but ShareASale will be performing the task so that merchants arenโt accessing information which traditionally is considered private within the network.
There is a chance that this plan will not work. My hope is that we can warn merchants that terminating NY is a bad plan – and one that needs rethinking. If our plan doesnโt work – and we end up needing to provide more information to merchants, we may end up having to do soโฆ I say this as a heads up to affiliates because while we donโt like to give out info, we also donโt want to put merchants in a place that makes it difficult to adhere to the laws of their state or others.”
Great job for addressing the situation and letting us know your thoughts from a network perspective, Brian and team.
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