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Re:Amazon Must Be Stopped by davidw on Friday October 10, 2014 @06:36AM (#8437057)
Actually, it looks like you, too, may be incorrect, in that they're working to crack down on just that:

http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/ba95cff0-4fcd-11e4-a0a4-00144...

Also, in the United States, Amazon has generally not fared well when it came to avoiding collecting local taxes when local authorities decided to put their feet down:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_tax

Re:Amazon Must Be Stopped by yulaow on Friday October 10, 2014 @06:46AM (#8437093)
As an eu citizen I knew that, and I can tell you they are "working on it" since decades of years (almost since Apple for the first time implemented it around the '80s), Nothing changed because Ireland doesn't want to change its taxation because the corps on its field lobby under the threat to move to another country, and the EU commission has not the power to impose the change to Ireland.