Amazon is discounting us to death | Tim Waterstone
Guardian Friday 6th April, 2012
Amazon's highly creative world-wide tax planning - we have learned, for instance, that it has paid no corporation tax in the UK whatsoever on the substantial profit generated by last year's sales of 3.3bn, and that the British division is under investigation by the authorities for its affairs since 2004 - somehow fits the mould for those of us whos...
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