diberry - 9:02 pm on Jun 10, 2011 (gmt 0)

I'm starting to wonder if some General Electric-style accounting is going to become necessary for us Webmasters. Since we can point affilitate links to any account, it might be a matter of making an arrangement with some entity in a state or country where these taxes aren't an issue.

That could work, so long as that entity issued the 1099s to the affiliates in the states where Amazon can't have affiliates. Maybe take 10% of the Amazon earnings and pay the rest over to the affiliates. Could be a lucrative business for somebody.