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Originally posted by BrentD
This could be caught easily, save all your check stubs from throughout the year and then when you recieve your 1099 compare the totals and if they don't match up turn this avs into teh IRS and they are so done
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I've got all my stubs, and since I keep very accurate records, I called them out on it. They said it was an accidental error on their part and sent me a corrected 1099. This happened 3 years in a row, each time to their benefit. That's got to be intentional or the worst record keeping for a major player in the history of AVS. I wonder how many webmasters simply paid this AVS's taxes?
Based on my estimations, they screwed the IRS out of tons of money. The IRS has a plan to pay snitchers a percentage of any money they recover, but I have a friend that's a tax lawyer and he says they usually find a way NOT to pay and you "unofficially" end up on the audit list for your involvement with a "shady" company. Not sure if that's true, but I'd rather not have the headache.
The only reason I stayed with this company was because they seemed to pay on time, so as long as I double-checked the 1099s, I figured I was cool. Not so. I also have reason to suspect they have been shaving sign-ups and clicks-throughs from the full page ad option, but no tangible proof. I do find it odd that I still got click-throughs from my site, even though I totally removed them and even shut down one of the sites...maybe a surfer bookmarked the referrer URL or something.