Amazon is in a difficult position. If their response to being informed was, instead, to re-issue the IRS form with a declaration that the account owner did NOT receive the money as income, then they have instead invented a way for people to dodge taxes by fraudulently claiming they are a victim of a money laundering scheme.
Also, fairly obviously, Amazon is not criminally liable because when the transactions happened they were, as far as they knew, simply selling books legally. Amazon had no criminal intent. This is the big difference.
Money laundering is also a difficult thing to deal with, since there are 'tipping off' crimes a lot of places, so you are not allowed to reveal that you are investigating.
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Amazon is in a difficult position. If their response to being informed was, instead, to re-issue the IRS form with a declaration that the account owner did NOT receive the money as income, then they have instead invented a way for people to dodge taxes by fraudulently claiming they are a victim of a money laundering scheme.
Also, fairly obviously, Amazon is not criminally liable because when the transactions happened they were, as far as they knew, simply selling books legally. Amazon had no criminal intent. This is the big difference.
Money laundering is also a difficult thing to deal with, since there are 'tipping off' crimes a lot of places, so you are not allowed to reveal that you are investigating.