Making it expensive to do affiliate marketing? Who benefits the most? There's gotta be some kind of ulterior motive to this. Possibly they want to discourage local New York residents from purchasing stuff from outside New York. More people buy local, and the businesses thrive and the state gets more tax money.
But, then again, locals will just buy from stores with no affiliate program (cheaper price), or networks can just remove all their new york affiliates and continue not collecting tax for each referral sale from new york.
This means that in the end, no tax will be collected. New York affiliates lose a big chunk of their income from affiliate marketing. People will move out of New York?
What's the final goal here? Perhaps they are hoping that Amazon will fight this, not charge tax on June 1 and get the money from backtaxes.
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