Originally Posted by McSpike

We have a company, affiliate programs (sponsors) have a company. We provide them a service of marketing their products through their affiliate program.

Yet not one affiliate program has ever asked us to send them an invoice for the service we provided in order to pay us. And we've worked with over 400 of them.

How do they justify the payment as a tax deductible expense without our invoices?

Do they treat all affiliates as natural persons (who don't need to issue invoices) and therefore disregard the fact that we are actually a company they should get an invoice from?

Where's the catch?