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Affiliate Woes for Amazon.com Go Global

6 July 2009

Tax attorneys for Amazon.com must be working overtime these days…
This week, Amazon.com learned that it faced another affiliate challenge: in Japan. This time, however, rather than its affiliate sales program, the focus is on corporate affiliates for Amazon.com. The two affiliates in question are Amazon Japan and Amazon Japan Logistics, which, exactly [...]

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Note to Tax Evaders: Don’t Hide Your Money in the Shed

15 March 2008

One of my favorite tax stories to come out of the BBC (yes, even more than the new UK budget) is the saga of Hatsue Shimizu and Yoshiko Ishii. The two Japanese sisters have been arrested for alleged tax evasion – the National Tax Agency in Japan is calling it the biggest ever case [...]

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