Amazon paid just £15m in tax on European revenues of £19.5bn

Re:Amazon paid just £15m in tax on European revenues of £19.5bn by DanBC on Thursday August 10, 2017 @03:34PM (#14983276)

Isn't income tax paid by the employees, and not Amazon? What's the employer's contribution?

What you're missing is that the UK has been going through years of austerity. The UK public know some large companies have weird dodgy tax arrangements, and while there's some acceptance that no-one pays the real tax rate there's growing unrest about the very low rates paid by eg Starbucks or Google or Amazon.

These companies can chose to pay a bit more tax, or face tighter regulation.

The current EU VAT laws are proof the EU is happy to make onerous laws about tax

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Re:Amazon paid just £15m in tax on European revenues of £19.5bn by tolien on Thursday August 10, 2017 @03:46PM (#14983417)

Also worth pointing out that a significant fraction of Amazon's (and Starbucks'; perhaps less so Google) staff (and especially the thousands that appear in the headlines when Amazon plants a big shed) are paid minimum wage and the taxpayer (via Working Tax Credits etc.) will be boosting that wage.

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