Amazon Stops Affiliate Program in Two States in Tax Spat

Amazon has shuttered its Associates affiliate programs in North Carolina and Rhode Island, a move enabling it to avoid having to collect state sales taxes through new laws likely to go into effect within days. However, the decision also means that the states' Amazon affiliates -- Web site operators who place links to Amazon merchandise on their pages in return for a percentage of sales -- will be left out in the cold.

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