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Originally Posted by Ansileran
So, to offer free shipping, Amazon is either making deficit sales (not sure the term is correct in English), which is illegal in France except in specific circumstances, or offering a hidden discount on books...
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Or, more likely, they're using up the same part of the price that physical chain book stores use to cover shipping to their own storefronts (as well as carriage, of course - have to account for the book sitting there on the shelf for a while instead of something that might sell immediately).
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Originally Posted by Rizla
It is deeply saddening that the governments of the UK and the USA allow these perfectly legal to continue.
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There, fixed that for you. Whatever your opinion is of their morality, the facts are that they are operating within the law when it comes to how much and where to pay taxes.
The only way to fix things, in a non-discriminatory manner, would be to change tax laws and legal definitions of corporations so that there are no such things as subsidiaries - that regardless of the corporation's internal operating structure, all monies earned and taxes owed from operations within your national territories are counted against the parent company, no matter which jurisdiction they stash the money.
This, of course, will never happen as no politician (with any real influence) is going to offend their post-political career employers to such an extent.