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New York Wants to Lay A Tax Burden on Out-of-State Small Businesses
Anita Campbell of Small Business Trends | February 25th, 2008 - 06:01 AM
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If you are an Internet entrepreneur or small business offering an affiliate program, New York’s Governor Eliot Spitzer wants to wrap you up in regulation and bureaucracy. Even if you run your business from Ohio or California or Hawaii.
If your business sells more than $10,000 to those in New York locations and you have an affiliate based in New York, you would be required to collect and remit taxes to New York authorities. For small businesses and entrepreneurs who sell through affiliate programs, this could be bad news.
Janet Attard of BusinessKnowHow.com writes that this plan, if it becomes law, would burden small businesses with extra expense and paperwork:
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