28-07-13, 05:31 PM
Quote:But equally the huge Amazon warehouses scattered all around the country employ thousands of people. All these people pay their income tax, National Insurance and spend their money so are contributing by paying VAT too. I suspect that the combined contributions to the economy made by the workers at Amazon total more than Amazon would pay if they declared all their income as UK based.
The income from Amazon UK is UK based. Yes they do carry out transactions in the UK, and it's estimated they are currently dodging tax of over 100 million a year.
Why if an Amazon employee has to pay tax do the bosses and shareholders get off Scot free.
Also Amazon pay a large % of it's workforce at just above the minimum wage - often I'm told 1p above the minimum wage. A lot of these full time employees won't be able to make ends meet as the minimum wage is not a living wage. So many Amazon employees will be claiming benefits.
So not only are Amazon dodging 100 million in due tax but their tax dodging rich shareholders are being subsidised by 40% tax rate payers like yourself.
And if they don't like paying their corporation tax, why not tell em take take run and jump? There are plenty of companies that will be happy to step in and carry on where Amazon left off, and who knows they might not only pay their taxes but even pay their full time staff a living wage.
If I dodge my tax, I get the book thrown at me, it's time to do exactly that with Amazon. Make em cough up or shut em down.