And this amazon, a seller/reseller of goods. If they disappear then people would just shop in another place. It's not like they are researching and building unique and non-replaceble products like apple or google.

Those jobs wouldn't be there without the US company that is Amazon. Having Amazon invest in the UK is a net win for the country. In addition to corporate tax, they likely also pay indirect taxes, such as business rates on property, stamp duty, and (some) VAT.

If you were to flip this, I take it you prefer a company such as BP pays all of their tax in the country they operate in, and very little in the UK? Most assets are not UK based, after all. That's the same reasoning.

Not exactly the best.

I don’t see any difference between earning more money or power. Except we have not yet invented any way of taxing power.

I wouldn’t go too much about Amazon only if Amazon actually created jobs that implied better societal cohesion, but what they do is they take advantage of the poor and uneducated in order to bring even more power to their own table that they share with nobody else.

I prefer that in a globalised world, companies pay taxes based on how much they have earn and employ in the country they operate in. No tax heavens - the only reason they exist is because other countries subsidise their military/safety nets and education.

Yes, the tax avoidance strategy Amazon uses is unique and interesting in that they keep growing massively, investors value them as a massively profitable company, yet they declare almost no taxable profit. But do we fix this, and if so, how? Maybe monopoly or monopsony laws need to be strengthened..

There will always be ways to avoid tax for those unwilling to pay (tax avoidance is as old as taxation itself), and past a certain point it gets a bit ridiculous to try and create more rules and laws.

I'm not sure I agree with the implication here that Amazon's services to the UK would not be filled by some other entity in its absence.

As a Brit I wish my country would give up on these boring and routine "outrage" stories. Amazon pays corporation tax in America because it's an American company. End of story. If my fellow Brits want a world beating firm like Amazon that brings profits back to the UK locally, they need to get cracking and make one.

They certainly benefit from investments in education, the road network, telecoms, etc.

It's amazing how little people value all that stuff until they actually need it.