Should Amazon give away their money voluntarily?
Just by playing by the rules is not good enough?
When you do your taxes, don't you with your accountant try to pay as little as possible?
Just by playing by the rules is not good enough?
When you do your taxes, don't you with your accountant try to pay as little as possible?
As a salary-earning individual, there's very little you can do to actually reduce your taxes by a meaningful amount, let alone down to zero like these corporations can.
And it was more to demonstrate, does anyone pay more than they have to? Why do we expect businesses to act differently than how individuals do?
It's true you can claim a lot as expense and register zero profits but only when you really don't have money.
People forget, Amazon gets its money from stock market - this money is someone's pension funds and savings, they are investing because people believe Amazon will one day then profit, they don't care about these losses.
So what's the alternative? Prevent people from investing into profitable things?