Originally Posted by Rochard

You have no idea how American taxes work. You go to a show, collect your receipts, and write them off on your taxes. The IRS doesn't look at your receipts and say "Gee, this plane ticket is for your wife and she's not an employee". In the event you do get audited you say "Well my wife does the affiliate support and we thought it would be good for her to meet the affiliates".