On 01/03/2013 10:01 AM, John Jason Jordan wrote: > I was trying to conceive of a way that a new user can get one or two > items free, but then has to start reciprocating by posting his or her > own things in order to continue getting stuff. At the same time I was > trying to avoid cash. Once there is cash on a site it becomes a target > for fraud, and the site operator personally becomes a target for > government agencies, who have a talent for smelling a revenue source.
Maybe if your site stays small it won't attract the attention of the IRS. But they already intend to have their fingers in the pot via the concept of bartering. See: http://www.irs.gov/taxtopics/tc420.html -- Regards, Dick Steffens _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
