# Amazon Vine 1099

**URL:** <https://discussion.mainstreetbusinesspodcast.com/t/amazon-vine-1099/457>\
**Category:** Tax Strategies\
**Created:** [June 5, 2024, 1:21am UTC](https://discussion.mainstreetbusinesspodcast.com/t/amazon-vine-1099/457 "2024-06-05T01:21:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![GunterZielke](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex046/user_avatar/discussion.mainstreetbusinesspodcast.com/gunterzielke/32/21_2.png) [@GunterZielke](https://discussion.mainstreetbusinesspodcast.com/u/GunterZielke)\
**Post date:** [June 5, 2024, 1:21am UTC](https://discussion.mainstreetbusinesspodcast.com/t/amazon-vine-1099/457/1 "2024-06-05T01:21:32Z")

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I became a gold member in the Amazon Vine program where I can get up to eight products per day for free, just for reviewing them. At the end of the year, Amazon will send me a 1099 for the market value of all received products. So far I thought about using this as hobby income to avoid self-employment tax on that income, but somehow there must be a better way to avoid these 33% taxes on things that I did get (and some of them are actually useful for me) but which I mostly don’t end up using, in other words not getting any value out of.