Even as Governor Jerry Brown lifted his pen today to sign the so-called “Amazon Tax” into law, thousands of affiliates across California were losing their jobs.

Major out-of-state retailers like Amazon.com and Overstock.com are terminating their California affiliate advertising programs in response to this legislation. I’ve been warning for months that this would happen, but apparently these warnings fell on deaf ears.

The so-called ‘Amazon tax’ is truly a lose-lose proposition for California. Not only won’t we see the promised revenues, we’ll actually lose income tax revenue as affiliates move to other states.

Tags: affiliates, Amazon, budget, businesses, California, Internet tax, Jerry Brown, jobs, Legislature, tax, taxes, unemployment

This entry was posted on Wednesday, June 29th, 2011 at 4:43 pm and is filed under Blog Posts.