The PMA Performance Marketing Alliance Association announced that the anti-affiliate legislation in Minnesota DID NOT PASS! This win is directly tried to the members of the PMA organization and the industry community working together to combat the tax legislation.This is the second win that demonstrates how effective we can be in having networks, merchants and affiliates working together to make a difference. Minnesota affiliates your efforts are greatly appreciated. The tax is dead for now. There are more of the political details on the PMA site. Here is the latest communication  about the omnibus tax bill that was passed by the Legislature.

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Minnesota –Multiple Taxes: Omnibus Public Finance Bill Passes Legislature

An omnibus public finance bill that would make numerous changes to corporate
income, personal income, sales and use, property, and other taxes has been
passed by the Minnesota Senate, and has been repassed by the House of
Representatives as amended by the Senate, on May 12, 2009. The provisions
were amended to H.F. 1298 by the conference committee for H.F. 2323, which
as previously reported, passed the House of Representative on April 25,
2009, and the Senate on April 28, 2009. (TAXDAY, 2009/04/28, S.12)

Sales and Use Taxes
The bill does not contain the provision, previously passed by the House and
the Senate (TAXDAY, 2009/04/28, S.12), that would have created a rebuttable
presumption, similar to New York’s so-called Amazon law, that a retailer is
presumed to have a solicitor in Minnesota if the retailer enters into an
agreement with a resident under which the resident, for a commission or
other consideration, directly or indirectly refers potential customers to
the retailer by a link on an Internet Web site or by other means.
H.F. 1298, as passed by the Legislature on May 12, 2009.
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