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Re:Amazon pays £1.7m corporation tax in the UK by sievebrain on Friday August 03, 2018 @07:17AM (#17678882)
Police protect people, by and large. Corporations don't benefit much from services of the state. Fire services would be a better example but they are often funded out of local rates rather than national corporation tax.

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.

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Re:Amazon pays £1.7m corporation tax in the UK by tonyedgecombe on Friday August 03, 2018 @07:47AM (#17679025)
Corporations don't benefit much from services of the state.

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

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Re:Amazon pays £1.7m corporation tax in the UK by noir_lord on Friday August 03, 2018 @08:13AM (#17679185)
Also courts and established legal systems.

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

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Re:Amazon pays £1.7m corporation tax in the UK by heavenlyblue on Friday August 03, 2018 @08:23AM (#17679247)
I know, right? The only reason I realised that was because I am from a country that legally has all of that but none of it properly works. Large corporations don’t work very well in these countries (or they work really well, depending on how illegal they would like to be).
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Re:Amazon pays £1.7m corporation tax in the UK by sievebrain on Sunday August 12, 2018 @09:24AM (#17744247)
Companies pay if they want the services of the courts to resolve disputes. They don't get it for free
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Re:Amazon pays £1.7m corporation tax in the UK by jsldn123 on Friday August 03, 2018 @07:39AM (#17678981)
Don't corporations benefit from having a base of consumers protected by the state? And employees educated by the state. And able to travel to your business on roads paid for by the state, etc etc.
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