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Re:Amazon paid no US income taxes for 2017 by cheald on Thursday March 01, 2018 @07:46PM (#16497846)
This isn't exactly new, though. Incidence of corporate taxes - not just Amazon - is already well-understood to primarily fall on labor.

https://www.kansascityfed.org/Publicat/RegionalRWP/RRWP07-01...

https://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/tax-policy/tax-anal...

Re:Amazon paid no US income taxes for 2017 by dvasdekis on Thursday March 01, 2018 @10:55PM (#16498865)
I want to believe in this hypothesis, because the case for land taxes has long been rejected due to the perception that they unfairly penalise 'mom and pop'. If corporate taxes do end up simply being a tax on labour, then taxes that don't have the same potential for manipulation can be put in their place.

However, two PDFs alone isn't sufficient proof for me. Has a broad meta-study of both sides of the argument been done?