How to complete Amazon Affiliate India Tax Interview

A simple tutorial on How to complete the Tax information or as they call Amazon associates interview for Amazon Affiliate India, this process is very important and needs to be done before Amazon could send you affiliate payments. If you haven't completed the tax interview, you won't receive any payments from Amazon.

The Tax interview process is fairly simple and self-explanatory, it's an online process and hardly takes five minutes to complete.

Below are the steps you need to follow to complete Tax interview.

Step 1

Step 2

Go to Account settings by hovering the mouse pointer over your email address.

Step 3

At the bottom of the Payment and Tax information section, click on Change your Tax Information. Now you'll find yourself in the tax interview section.

Step 4

What is your tax classification?

You can choose Individual in most cases unless you're running a registered business, in that case, choose Business.

Step 5

Please provide your Proprietary business name if applicable.
Here you can put your name, business name, or the name of your website/blog, etc. Since it is an optional field, you can leave it blank if you wish.

Step 6

Select your country/region of tax residence - INDIA
What is your country of citizenship? - INDIA

Step 7

Fill in your PAN number (Permanent Account Number)

Step 8

Do you have a Lower Tax Deduction Certificate issued by the Income Tax Authority? Click on Yes if you have the certificate, otherwise click on NO.

Step 9

You can fill in your GST registration number if you have, or just leave it blank. This field is optional.

Step 10

Type your Full Name in the Signature field and hit Submit

Fix Submission Errors

In some cases, you might run into errors while submitting the tax information. The most common error is shown below.

There was an error. Please try again. If the problem persists, please contact support.

Some easy ways to fix this error are by clearing browser cache, history, cookies, etc. if the error still persists, try different browsers and computers. Amazon advises against using smartphones for tax interviews but in case you are running into errors on your computer, there is no harm in trying it on a smartphone.

While completing the tax interview, I ran into the "There was an error. Please try again. If the problem persists, please contact support." error several times, I tried clearing caches, browser data, etc. tried changing browsers, computers, etc. but nothing worked. Finally, when I used my smartphone to complete the tax interview, it worked like a charm on my very first try, so try doing that if you are running into errors.

If nothing works, you have no choice but to contact Amazon Affiliate support, you can explain your issue and they typically reply within 24 hours.

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