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Re:Amazon Pulls Out of Planned New York City Campus by rhizome on Thursday February 14, 2019 @10:10PM (#19168171)
I'm under the impression that Amazon has never been a big taxpayer.
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Re:Amazon Pulls Out of Planned New York City Campus by ehnto on Friday February 15, 2019 @01:23AM (#19168878)
Their employees still pay tax though. With tech wages as high as they are it is probably non-trivial amounts.

I am not advocating for big businesses evading tax mind you. Just suggesting it would probably still be a boon for the state tax income if a bunch of tech wages migrated to the NY tax base.

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Re:Amazon Pulls Out of Planned New York City Campus by C1sc0cat on Friday February 15, 2019 @05:29AM (#19169812)
And also make less demands on the social services
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Re:Amazon Pulls Out of Planned New York City Campus by arcticbull on Friday February 15, 2019 @03:34AM (#19169394)
NY has city income tax too ranging from 2.907% to 3.876%
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Re:Amazon Pulls Out of Planned New York City Campus by rhizome on Friday February 15, 2019 @05:14PM (#19175213)
The average salary was to be 150K, which I feel is likely to be well within the margin of a desire for minimization.
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Re:Amazon Pulls Out of Planned New York City Campus by davedx on Friday February 15, 2019 @03:44AM (#19169433)
0 federal income tax for 2018.
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Re:Amazon Pulls Out of Planned New York City Campus by sadris on Friday February 15, 2019 @02:08AM (#19169040)
They don't make that much money. their profit margins suck.
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Re:Amazon Pulls Out of Planned New York City Campus by wkillerud on Friday February 15, 2019 @02:16AM (#19169078)
10.07 B net income in 2018 [1] is not my idea of "[not] mak[ing] that much money"

[1]: https://www.marketwatch.com/investing/stock/amzn/financials

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Re:Amazon Pulls Out of Planned New York City Campus by sadris on Saturday February 16, 2019 @10:59PM (#19182599)
Which is precisely why I included the word "margin"
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