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Re:NYC Open Letter to Jeff Bezos by yohann305 on Friday March 01, 2019 @10:28AM (#19281459)
you might be confused between Federal tax and State tax. Amazon paid $0 in Federal taxes but they still have to pay state tax in the states they do business in.
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Re:NYC Open Letter to Jeff Bezos by pzone on Friday March 01, 2019 @10:52AM (#19281724)
This is correct. The $27B also counts income taxes paid by employees, property taxes based on rising valuations, and so on.
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