Both Karen and I have had numerous health problems and surgeries in the last few months. All our efforts have been focused on helping each other recover and regain our health.
California laws changed in June 2011 with regard to webmasters with Amazon.com associate accounts. California now demands that Associates pay California sales taxes. We, of course, paid California income taxes in the past on all Amazon income. Amazon has chosen to refuse to pay any California sales taxes. Amazon has now stopped paying Amazon Associates in California for all our link referrals from our websites and blogs that lead to purchases at Amazon. Amazon, of course, continues to benefit from all link advertising referrals from former Associates; it just does not pay them anything. This has resulted in a decrease of our web based income by $150 per month. What a disappointment for us! We feel ripped off by both Amazon and the State of California.
No Tai Chi Chuan, Qigong, or Internal Martial Arts publisher, business, author or teacher has ever given us any money to advertise their products or services. Nobody has ever financially sponsored our non-gardening websites or blogs in any way.
We are semi-retired, working four part-time jobs, and may need to prune back and discontinue our websites or blogs that cost us annual fees for web hosting and domain registration. We may, like thousands of others, just bow out gracefully from any more blogging or webpage creative work.
California laws changed in June 2011 with regard to webmasters with Amazon.com associate accounts. California now demands that Associates pay California sales taxes. We, of course, paid California income taxes in the past on all Amazon income. Amazon has chosen to refuse to pay any California sales taxes. Amazon has now stopped paying Amazon Associates in California for all our link referrals from our websites and blogs that lead to purchases at Amazon. Amazon, of course, continues to benefit from all link advertising referrals from former Associates; it just does not pay them anything. This has resulted in a decrease of our web based income by $150 per month. What a disappointment for us! We feel ripped off by both Amazon and the State of California.
No Tai Chi Chuan, Qigong, or Internal Martial Arts publisher, business, author or teacher has ever given us any money to advertise their products or services. Nobody has ever financially sponsored our non-gardening websites or blogs in any way.
We are semi-retired, working four part-time jobs, and may need to prune back and discontinue our websites or blogs that cost us annual fees for web hosting and domain registration. We may, like thousands of others, just bow out gracefully from any more blogging or webpage creative work.
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