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Originally Posted by HarryT
I'm honestly baffled by what it is you're complaining about. Amazon made a loss in 2012, and an exceedingly small profit in 2011. Tax is paid on profit, not sales. What is it you're accusing them of not paying, exactly?
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That's just wrong and shows you don't know a lot about taxes. Various types of taxes are paid on various types of incomes. But never let facts get in the way of a good argument.
Let me explain to you again what I'm complaining about
: I am complaining about the fact that big multinationals find ways to avoid taxes by schemes that were never intended by the EU and are not available to "us" (us, the people), because the only make sense on the scale of a big corporation.
I am complaining about the fact that these loopholes stay open, because lobbying pays and blackmails politicans into leaving them open. I am complaining because therefore, big corporations have an influence over the very tax system that basically allows them to help decide the amount of taxes they (do not) have to pay.
I am complaining about the fact that as an honest citizen we neither have this opportunity, the choice nor the influence Amazon has on this tax system and that we therefore are treated unfairly.
I am complaining about the fact that a small business owner neither has this opportunity, the choice nor the influence Amazon has on this tax system.
Get it now?