As a small business owner with 12 employees this will create an exceptional amount of additional work that will take resources away from my core business. This will hinder our ability to grow.
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Karla Kirby
10 years ago
I say NO!!!
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BreeAnna
10 years ago
This bill will effect me. I feel very strongly that it is the wrong step for Utah as a whole and for other small businesses like me.
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Steve Park
10 years ago
Don't bring affiliate tax nexus laws into the state of Utah!
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Brooke marshall
10 years ago
Affiliates drive our Utah economy by giving spendy mommy bloggers cash to blow on boutiques and targets in Utah. You're ignorant if you think the revenue you will get from taxes will outweigh the revenue you will lose if affiliates who pay Utahns drop their partnership.
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Michael Spencer
10 years ago
Vote NO! If you vote for this you are supporting big government.
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Allison Olsen
10 years ago
Keep your grubby hands off hard working peoples' money. You already take enough...don't you think???!
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Leah Harvath
10 years ago
Please vote no on this bill. All it does is hurt honest, hard-working Utahns who have businesses online as well as being detrimental to Utah's economy. Utah is known to be a business friendly state and this law would change that for everyone who lives and works here.
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Jill Williams
10 years ago
History of similar bills in other states has shown that companies without a current nexus in the state will simply discontinue the use of affiliates in that state in order to avoid the sales tax. This just hurts the affiliate. The state is not helped at all because sales tax still will not be collected from online purchases its residents make from this retailer.
My small business, which earned more than $20k last year, will not be able to survive with this bill. I will be losing that entire income, and the state will lose the income tax from this bill as well. I will no longer be able to afford to put my children in extracurricular activities such as dance and piano, thereby harming more small businesses in Utah.
Now imagine this scenario times 10,000, the number of affiliate marketers in Utah, some of which make hundreds of thousands of dollars in a year. In order to keep there livelihood, they'll likely pack up and move their business out of the state of Utah, further decreasing the economy of the state and income tax revenue.
Instead of this type of a bill, I firmly believe the state needs to entice retailers to establish a physical nexus in the state through warehouses or office buildings.
Please consider how this will jeopardize small businesses as well as the entire state revenue and vote NO to both Senate Bill 182 and House Bill 235.
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Anonymous
10 years ago
No! This only hurts our state.
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Anonymous
10 years ago
i worry about the consequences of this for small businesses owners and the effects on individuals. Money is already tight enough.
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Benjamin Peterson
10 years ago
I apose the current bill as it stands. I believe that it can be amended similar to the Colorado legislation to protect affiliate bloggers who earn state taxable income. Without that language we wI'll loose a heat amount of that income affecting families and local businesses who will not be patroned due to an income reduction for thousands of families all over Utah.
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Nate Babbel
10 years ago
This is a terrible idea. This will not help business, entrepreneurs, commerce, or anything worthwhile.
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Jen Hudak
10 years ago
I strongly oppose both of these bills! This would be a detriment to the affiliate marketing world, but especially Utah's economy.
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Traci Shepard
10 years ago
No, no, no to this bill!
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Anonymous
10 years ago
These bills are not good for the state of Utah and our business friendly environment.
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Lauren Hales
10 years ago
As an employee of a blog based business I strongly oppose both of these bills. Even if bloggers are exempt the trickle down affect, as mentioned in earlier comments, could very well cost me my job. The state doesn't need more taxes and money from the people. They need to better manage the money they currently have. It seems clear from researching other states who have passed similar bills that this is incredibly counterproductive and could be detrimental to Utah's economy vs helpful. Do not pass these bills.
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Preston
10 years ago
No! No! No!
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Anita Fowler
10 years ago
By exempting bloggers from this bill we appreciate the efforts to help, but it still doesn't solve the issue. If Utah becomes a Nexus states affiliate partnerships will be terminated and the 10,000 Utah bloggers who are making small to substantial amounts of income from Amazon will lose the income that is fueling the economy and also will not pay income taxes on it.
The larger bloggers I know (which are in the hundreds in Utah) who make close to six figures a year, will be forced to sell their homes and move. We really will uproot our lives in order to feed our children and afford housing. Not only will we be selling our homes, moving, and no longer paying income tax on those six figures a year, we will be growing other state's economies.
As one of the representatives mentioned, we are likely exchanging one evil for another.
Please reconsider this bill.
As a small business owner with 12 employees this will create an exceptional amount of additional work that will take resources away from my core business. This will hinder our ability to grow.
I say NO!!!
This bill will effect me. I feel very strongly that it is the wrong step for Utah as a whole and for other small businesses like me.
Don't bring affiliate tax nexus laws into the state of Utah!
Affiliates drive our Utah economy by giving spendy mommy bloggers cash to blow on boutiques and targets in Utah. You're ignorant if you think the revenue you will get from taxes will outweigh the revenue you will lose if affiliates who pay Utahns drop their partnership.
Vote NO! If you vote for this you are supporting big government.
Keep your grubby hands off hard working peoples' money. You already take enough...don't you think???!
Please vote no on this bill. All it does is hurt honest, hard-working Utahns who have businesses online as well as being detrimental to Utah's economy. Utah is known to be a business friendly state and this law would change that for everyone who lives and works here.
History of similar bills in other states has shown that companies without a current nexus in the state will simply discontinue the use of affiliates in that state in order to avoid the sales tax. This just hurts the affiliate. The state is not helped at all because sales tax still will not be collected from online purchases its residents make from this retailer. My small business, which earned more than $20k last year, will not be able to survive with this bill. I will be losing that entire income, and the state will lose the income tax from this bill as well. I will no longer be able to afford to put my children in extracurricular activities such as dance and piano, thereby harming more small businesses in Utah. Now imagine this scenario times 10,000, the number of affiliate marketers in Utah, some of which make hundreds of thousands of dollars in a year. In order to keep there livelihood, they'll likely pack up and move their business out of the state of Utah, further decreasing the economy of the state and income tax revenue. Instead of this type of a bill, I firmly believe the state needs to entice retailers to establish a physical nexus in the state through warehouses or office buildings. Please consider how this will jeopardize small businesses as well as the entire state revenue and vote NO to both Senate Bill 182 and House Bill 235.
No! This only hurts our state.
i worry about the consequences of this for small businesses owners and the effects on individuals. Money is already tight enough.
I apose the current bill as it stands. I believe that it can be amended similar to the Colorado legislation to protect affiliate bloggers who earn state taxable income. Without that language we wI'll loose a heat amount of that income affecting families and local businesses who will not be patroned due to an income reduction for thousands of families all over Utah.
This is a terrible idea. This will not help business, entrepreneurs, commerce, or anything worthwhile.
I strongly oppose both of these bills! This would be a detriment to the affiliate marketing world, but especially Utah's economy.
No, no, no to this bill!
These bills are not good for the state of Utah and our business friendly environment.
As an employee of a blog based business I strongly oppose both of these bills. Even if bloggers are exempt the trickle down affect, as mentioned in earlier comments, could very well cost me my job. The state doesn't need more taxes and money from the people. They need to better manage the money they currently have. It seems clear from researching other states who have passed similar bills that this is incredibly counterproductive and could be detrimental to Utah's economy vs helpful. Do not pass these bills.
No! No! No!
By exempting bloggers from this bill we appreciate the efforts to help, but it still doesn't solve the issue. If Utah becomes a Nexus states affiliate partnerships will be terminated and the 10,000 Utah bloggers who are making small to substantial amounts of income from Amazon will lose the income that is fueling the economy and also will not pay income taxes on it. The larger bloggers I know (which are in the hundreds in Utah) who make close to six figures a year, will be forced to sell their homes and move. We really will uproot our lives in order to feed our children and afford housing. Not only will we be selling our homes, moving, and no longer paying income tax on those six figures a year, we will be growing other state's economies. As one of the representatives mentioned, we are likely exchanging one evil for another. Please reconsider this bill.
I vote NO!