Overstock Files Lawsuit to Fight New York Tax Law - 5 Star Affiliate Marketing Blogs

A very important issue that has been gaining a head of steam and needs more involvement from our interactive marketing community. the below is a very important post from Linda Buquet at 5 Star Affiliate Programs. Please take the time to read all the information and get involved by spreading the word thru social media. So Tweet it, Digg it, Stumble it, post it to Facebook!

Overstock Files Lawsuit to Fight New York Tax Law - 5 Star Affiliate Marketing Blogs: "BIG Breaking News! While I gave Overstock a seriously hard time over dropping their New York affiliates - now I need to give them a HUGE thank you on behalf of the affiliate marketing industry for their latest move!

We really needed another major retailer to challenge this law as Amazon did and now we have it! Overstock just announced yesterday, they filed their own suit.

“The complaint filed in the New York Supreme Court calls upon the court to issue an injunction and to declare the law unconstitutional.”

Can’t believe I broke this story and no one in the industry has blogged it yet. Then again, I’m overly obsessed and constantly scouring the net for news on this issue. I think this could help us even more than the Amazon suit, for a variety of reasons. Hopefully I can help spread the word to let people know. I’ll get a twit and an email out to key people in the industry who I’m working with on this issue.

We are coordinating a New York Tax panel discussion for next week’s Affiliate Marketing Insider Radio show. Maybe I can get Overstock legal to be on the show and comment on their stance with affiliates and this suit.

Overstock.com Challenges Constitutionality of New York’s Internet Tax Law
http://affiliate-blogs.5staraffiliateprograms.com/1512/overstock-lawsuit-new-york-tax-law.html

There are other posts on RelevantlySpeaking.com about this issue and our Advaliant division of Mediatrust getting involved.

Another good link is to the Forbes article calling the New York State Amazon Tax unconstitutional.

Its important that our community collaborate on this tax and make our voice heard. This is a call to action for all to participate in any way getting this viral. Please join in!
OTHER HELPFUL LINKS:
http://blog.affiliatetip.com/archives/internet-retailer-on-the-ny-affiliate-tax/

5 Star Affiliate Program’s Linda Buquet proactive call to action commentary and updates (a must read)

Kevin Webster of the 72 Kilowatts blog started a post on ABestWeb, “Merchants who ALREADY collect New York Sales Tax.”