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Re:Some voters are sick of companies like Amazon paying no c... by lfcc on Tuesday April 30, 2019 @07:07AM (#19786851)
It mentions tax rate laws, but those don't actually cover why Amazon effectively paid no taxes. I.e. massive investments in R&D, stock-based employee compensation, carry-forwards losses, and whatever else I may still be missing.

I don't think it can be considered fairly informative if it doesn't cover how we got to those values. From reading this article, one could still ask if a tax rate is at 21%, how does that mean a profitable company doesn't pay any taxes?

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Re:Some voters are sick of companies like Amazon paying no c... by jrumbut on Tuesday April 30, 2019 @07:34AM (#19786981)
I don't think its an article about Amazon's tax bill as such. It's about how Ohio voters and presidential candidates are reacting to Amazon and several other firms' effective tax rates.

If they went through what Amazon and Goodyear and GM and Duke Energy all did then they would just be rehashing the report that they conveniently linked.

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