Brian Littleton, President and CEO of ShareASale.com, announced on his forum on ABestWeb that his affiliate network will work with merchants to make decisions on how to react to the upcoming Amazon tax in New York.

As I reported last week, Overstock.com is removing all New York affiliates from their affiliate program to avoid having online purchases by New York residents subject to a sales tax.

The New York state government has decided that having affiliates in the state qualifies as a tax nexus for any company, and they will start collecting sales tax in such cases on June 1, 2008.

Anyhow, ShareASale will be providing key information to merchants to help them to determine the impact on their business from affiliates in New York state.

Regarding this law, it is important for us to provide the answer to the question that is at the crux of the law. As a merchant, the question is … “In the past year (or other time frame) what was my total gross sales generated from affiliates residing in the state of NY.”

As such, our first response to this will be to provide this report which will allow merchants to know where they stand regarding the law.

Visit http://forum.abestweb.com/showthread.php?t=105428 for more information.