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Re:Amazon paid no US income taxes for 2017 by IntronExon on Thursday March 01, 2018 @09:25PM (#16498454)
“Corporations are people too my friend.”

So the employees being separate people are not the corporation, and their tax situation is not the corporation’s.

Can’t have it both ways, or rather, shouldn’t.

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Re:Amazon paid no US income taxes for 2017 by IanDrake on Thursday March 01, 2018 @10:14PM (#16498682)
This is a pedantic point. The source of the wealth employees are paying taxes on comes from the corporation.

Amazon either retains the earning (doesn’t grant options) and pays income tax on the retained earnings OR grants the options and the grantee pays the income tax on that amount.

What both ways are you talking about?

The 1B dollars got taxed. There was no free lunch.

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Re:Amazon paid no US income taxes for 2017 by bonesss on Friday March 02, 2018 @07:34AM (#16500939)
To expound a little: the same scenario applies to pure salary. If Amazon really wants to avoid taxes it can increase salary until its profits are 0.

As you're pointing out: this makes the ledger '0' in one spot, but increases it at the same rate at another spot. It's not a tax dodge, it's tax rearrangement.

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