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Originally Posted by Webby
The checking and tracking of affiliates is no biggie crocket - easy shit - got some friends in US law agencies that deal with far more complex net stuff than that - and they are pretty successful at it.
Won't say here, but in theory if you started a corp, say in Costa Rica, you would have a US tax lawyer here handle the affairs with the IRS and declare whatever needs declaring and pay taxes on this. (Doing otherwise just causes sheer shit and hassle)
Your corp will have a bank account - not necessarily in Costa Rica, but not in the US. From that corp account all hosting is paid and all revenue paid into it. This corp is not "you", but a legal entity which you own 100% shareholding.
All hosting is outside US territory.
If you are actually living in eg Costa Rica, the IRS will allow approx $80K/year "allowances" for non-US residency.
Bottom line - sure, make sure all relevant tax stuff is maintained and it's far less likely your corp will be in the front line for US inspection on "porn laws".
PS There are other scenarios, tho these are more complex and not something that needs to be declared/discussed on a chatboard, but the effect is the same. |
Yea see that's all I'm after, I'm not looking to go spam or do any dirty biz, however I want to continue to operate like I do now. I can't run my sites and deal with the whole 2257 BS that who knows what will happen with it.
I'm not talking about making big money or anything like that, but rather just making a good living online. I don't want to have to change up my entire biz model when I'm finally starting to get somewhere with what I've been doing.
Otherwise I think the only real option, if these changes to 2257 go through is to run my own paysite and promote it myself with maybe a few invite only affiliates. Im' just not in the position to do something like that at this time. However being in the free site market as an affiliate I could see all my income go bye bye with the new additions in the Adam Walsh law.
So I'm just sick of dealing with the BS of not knowing what is going to happen or what's going on. I know it's not a fool proof way to do it, but I have some very nice listings in the search engines for several top teen keywords and I believe I could possibly be a target if they start going after guys that are running free sites such as TGP's and blogs. Even though I would never touch anything CP related and I only promote well known affiliate programs.
I mean if they start going after secondry producers then the first things they are going to look at is the search engines and who ever is listed IMO.