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Avoidance of tax payment by Amazon
to a report released by Fair Tax Mark in 2019, Amazon is the best actor of tax avoidance, having paid a 12% effective tax rate between 2010 and 2018, in
Amazon_tax_avoidance
Financial optimization technique
Tax avoidance is the legal use of the tax regime in a single territory to one's own advantage to reduce the amount of tax that is payable. A tax shelter
Tax_avoidance
Term for anti-tax avoidance measures
'Google tax' is a popular term used to refer to anti-avoidance provisions that have been passed in several jurisdictions dealing with profits or royalties
Google_tax
Varied criticism across business areas
com. The Direct. Retrieved January 29, 2023. "Amazon investigated by UK authorities over tax avoidance". The Independent. April 5, 2012. Archived from
Criticism_of_Amazon
Place which charges very low taxes on profits
ignore very small tax havens where data is limited as the haven is used for individual tax avoidance rather than corporate tax avoidance. The last credible
Tax_haven
capital gains tax. Jersey's tax system has been criticised as allowing tax avoidance. As such, the country has been labelled by some as a 'tax haven', though
Taxation_in_Jersey
Financial scandal revealed in November 2014
comment about tax avoidance schemes in Luxembourg and elsewhere. This scandal contributed to the implementation of measures aiming at reducing tax dumping and
LuxLeaks
Classification of tax havens
Committee on Money laundering, tax avoidance and tax evasion (PANA), and by tabulating against existing EU–IMF–FSI list of tax havens, showed material gaps
Conduit_and_sink_OFCs
Multinational tax avoidance tools
corporate tax avoidance strategies used by multinationals to "shift" profits from higher-tax jurisdictions to lower-tax jurisdictions or no-tax locations
Base erosion and profit shifting
Base_erosion_and_profit_shifting
Low "effective" tax rates for foreign corporations
Gravelle (15 January 2015). "Tax Havens: International Tax Avoidance and Evasion". Cornell University. "Dutch masters of tax avoidance". The Guardian. 19 October
Corporate_haven
UK goods and services tax policy
Major retailers involved in this tax avoidance included Amazon, Asda, HMV, Play.com, Tesco, W H Smith and Woolworths. The tax avoided each year due to LVCR
Value-added tax in the United Kingdom
Value-added_tax_in_the_United_Kingdom
Fixed tax paid by every liable individual
A poll tax, also known as head tax or capitation, is a tax levied as a fixed sum on every liable individual (typically every adult), without reference
Poll_tax
Tax on the sales of certain goods and services
sales tax is a tax paid to a governing body for the sales of certain goods and services. Usually, laws allow the seller to collect funds for the tax from
Sales_tax
Financial levy on Internet-based services
as a result of successful tax avoidance by multinational corporations that operate within the digital economy. Internet taxes prominently target companies
Internet_tax
digital goods and/or services, sometimes referred to as digital tax and/or a digital services tax, is gaining popularity across the globe. The digital economy
Taxation_of_digital_goods
Statute governing corporate law in Delaware
to most other U.S. states. 66% of the Fortune 500, including Walmart and Amazon (two of the world's largest companies by revenue) are incorporated (and
Delaware General Corporation Law
Delaware_General_Corporation_Law
American businessman (born 1964)
Trump accused Amazon and Bezos, specifically, of sales tax avoidance, misusing postal routes, and anti-competitive business practices. Amazon's share price
Jeff_Bezos
UK media investment and advisory group
In July 2014, Ingenious Media was investigated by HMRC for promoting tax avoidance schemes. In October 2014, HMRC sent "accelerated payment notices" to
Ingenious_Media
Criticism of Google includes concern for tax avoidance, misuse and manipulation of search results, its use of others' intellectual property, concerns
Criticism_of_Google
Criticisms of Starbucks corporation
has come from around the world, including a wide range issues from tax avoidance in Europe, anti-competitive practices in the United States, human rights
Criticism_of_Starbucks
30 July 2013. Retrieved 25 June 2016. "Why I'm finally going to boycott Amazon". The Guardian. 17 August 2015. Retrieved 2 November 2019. "Online petition
List_of_boycotts
Indian Director of Enforcement Directorate
Retrieved 3 December 2025. "Information Exchange and Tax Transparency - Tackling Global Tax Evasion and Avoidance". Amazon. Retrieved 3 December 2025.
Rahul_Navin
Payment for receiving audiovisual broadcasts
in part by the licence fees. Licence fees are effectively a hypothecated tax to fund public broadcasting. Radio broadcasters in the early 20th century
Television_licence
British Conservative politician and convicted sex offender
Telegraph concluding: "Amazon, Google and Starbucks are just the very small tip of a very, very large iceberg. The tax avoidance culture is deeply ingrained
Charlie_Elphicke
federal income taxes last year (nothing)."" (Tweet) – via Twitter. Picchi, Aimee (April 16, 2019). "Bernie Sanders: It's a "disgrace" that Amazon, Netflix "pay
Criticism_of_Netflix
Former motto of Google
penalise Google and other large multinational corporations' artificial tax avoidance. Google's alleged uses of multi-platform mass surveillance, search engine
Don't_be_evil
Geographic area where economic activity between and within countries is less regulated
Companies in these areas are benefitting from tax exemptions and incentives at the ICMS Tax (State Value-Added Tax). Some Brazilian states offer other regional
Free-trade_zone
British lawyer, publisher and TV host
long-standing efforts to hold Baxendale-Walker accountable for promoting tax avoidance schemes that the agency claims cost the UK over £1 billion in revenue
Paul_Baxendale-Walker
British bookshop chain
Waterstone and James Daunt have been critical of tax avoidance by Amazon in the British press. Amazon has received sustained scrutiny for the amount of
Waterstones
Political movement originating in the American Revolution
that as they were not represented in the distant British parliament, any taxes it imposed on the colonists (such as the Stamp Act and the Townshend Acts)
No taxation without representation
No_taxation_without_representation
British political campaign group
by billionaire Jeff Bezos. Bezos also founded Amazon, and both his own tax avoidance and that of Amazon have been the subject of criticism for several
Everyone_Hates_Elon
American pharmaceutical company
Gilead has been criticized for tax avoidance. Tax avoidance, as opposed to tax evasion, is the use of legal means to shift tax burdens from the one jurisdiction
Gilead_Sciences
British actor (born 1964)
"I’m proud to be a 50 per cent tax-payer". He has also been an outspoken critic of Jimmy Carr for using a tax avoidance scheme in 2012. He said of Carr
Robson_Green
British businessmen; twin brothers (born 1934)
manages their UK businesses. Their businesses have been accused of tax avoidance, by placing assets under ownership of companies registered abroad and
David_and_Frederick_Barclay
Multinational online clothing retailer
Guardian reported that the company had been accused of UK corporate tax avoidance by shifting profits to Singapore. Deutsche Welle released a video in
Shein
American multinational technology company
company has received criticism involving issues such as privacy concerns, tax avoidance, censorship, search neutrality, antitrust, and abuse of its monopoly
American clothing company
companies that "paid an effective federal tax rate of 0% or less" in 2018 as a result of Donald Trump's Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017. In January 2020
PVH_Corp.
British former rent-to-own retailer
it actively compared with other retail competitors; The Co-operative and Amazon.com. Furniture accounted for about 20 per cent of sales, audio and visual
BrightHouse_(retailer)
International network of investigative reporters
Juncker's premiership had turned into a major European centre of corporate tax avoidance. In February 2015, the ICIJ website released information about bank
International Consortium of Investigative Journalists
International_Consortium_of_Investigative_Journalists
American pharmaceutical company
(M&A) deals of that year and one of the largest tax inversions in history, due to changes in the US tax code by the US Treasury; AbbVie had to pay a $1
AbbVie
2016 document leak scandal
clearly indicate ethical if not legal impropriety. Some disclosures – tax avoidance in very poor countries by very wealthy entities and individuals for
Panama_Papers
American multinational technology company
high-tax countries in a manner that allowed the company to sell on behalf of low-tax subsidiaries on other continents, sidestepping income taxes. In the
Apple_Inc.
Online marketing hub
monthly active users of Temu's global smartphone app surpassed that of Amazon. In the year of 2024, it was the most downloaded iPhone app in over 20 countries
Temu
British and Irish comedian (born 1972)
Western Europe." In June 2012, Carr's involvement in an alleged K2 tax avoidance scheme came to light after an investigation by The Times. The scheme
Jimmy_Carr
operations have also received coverage. The company's electricity usage, tax avoidance, real-name user requirement policies, censorship policies, handling
Criticism_of_Facebook
Financial centre in Dublin, Ireland
global corporate tax avoidance. In 2018, a Gabriel Zucman study estimated that Ireland had become the world's largest corporate tax haven by virtue of
International Financial Services Centre, Dublin
International_Financial_Services_Centre,_Dublin
considered a 'tax haven' by some sources (e.g. the Tax Justice Network), but this label is contested. Jersey has a long history of tax avoidance and smuggling
Economy_of_Jersey
High-security storage facility in Singapore
back in Switzerland, following greater scrutiny on the country's role as a tax haven. Bouvier and diamond dealer Alain Vandenborre are both shareholders
Le_Freeport
Multinational power management company
Cooper Industries Eagle Electric Powerware Corporation tax in the Republic of Ireland#Corporate tax inversions "Eaton Corporation plc 2024 Annual Report
Eaton_Corporation
relief (LVCR). This is a tax relief that applies to low-valued imports to the European Union, exempting them from value-added tax (VAT). Although the UK
VAT-free imports from the Channel Islands
VAT-free_imports_from_the_Channel_Islands
American mining company
along with 90 additional Fortune 500 companies paid no federal taxes as a result of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017. Freeport Sulphur Company was founded
Freeport-McMoRan
Misclassification of independent contractors
maintains a legal distinction between independent contractors and employees for tax treatment and for the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). The distinction has
Independent contractor-employee distinction in the United States
Independent_contractor-employee_distinction_in_the_United_States
British not-for-profit publisher, research and campaign organisation
consumer oriented campaigns, including a boycott against Amazon.com, Inc. for its use of tax avoidance. It has also campaigned for better working conditions
Ethical_Consumer
English retail entrepreneur, philanthropist and author
Telegraph and many others as well as Parliament with regard to corporate tax avoidance, including high profile investigations into tech, media and retail companies
Julian_Richer
2017. "More than 13 million documents that reveal a huge network of tax avoidance and evasion: laSexta unveils the Papers of Paradise, the largest filtration
List of people and organisations named in the Paradise Papers
List_of_people_and_organisations_named_in_the_Paradise_Papers
Irish professional services company
their US taxes. Critics such as former CNN journalist Lou Dobbs, reported Accenture's decision to incorporate in Bermuda was a US tax avoidance ploy, because
Accenture
excessive tax avoidance by US multinationals in Ireland. A 2018 study published via the Center for International Relations suggested that due to the tax practices
Economy of the Republic of Ireland
Economy_of_the_Republic_of_Ireland
British Overseas Territory in the Caribbean
international businesses and wealthy individuals mainly due to the state charging no tax on income earned or stored. With a GDP per capita of $97,750 in 2023, the
Cayman_Islands
Genus of mammals
differences regarding their food preferences, adaptability to cold climates and avoidance of predators. The spatial niche segregation between stone and pine martens
Marten
Scottish filmmaker and novelist
because their financing incorporated tax avoidance schemes devised by his business partner and close friend the tax accountant (also arts patron and benefactor)
Don_Boyd
Multinational professional services network
less taxes being paid to the countries in question. Deloitte also said it was wrong to say it is tax avoidance to make use of provisions in double tax treaties
Deloitte
American Utility Company
2019 WEC Energy Group "paid an effective federal tax rate of 0% or less" as a result of Donald Trump´s Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017. On May 3, 1995, Wisconsin
WEC_Energy_Group
American multinational conglomerate
renewing its $850 million contract with Amazon for the company's U.S. domestic express delivery business. Amazon accounted for 1.3 percent of 2018 revenues
FedEx
International economic globalization
2013 "Google will not oppose clampdown on tax avoidance, chairman says" Guardian, 28 January 2013 "Tax avoidance isn't a left or right issue, it's a cancer
Economic_globalization
British multinational retail groceries company
corporation tax. Tax expert Richard Murphy has provided an analysis of this avoidance structure. Tax avoidance has not always been related to corporation tax. A
Tesco
American company
"Allbirds' Defeat of Consumer Class Action Offers Valuable Greenwashing-Avoidance Guideposts". Washington Legal Foundation. Retrieved June 19, 2024. Barford
Allbirds
European civil servant and academic
investigations by the European Commission into tax arrangements by multinational corporations, including Apple, Amazon, Starbucks, Fiat and Engie. She is a frequent
Helena_Malikova
American materials company
additional Fortune 500 companies "paid an effective federal tax rate of 0% or less" as a result of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017. In February 2020, Edward
DuPont
Intentional non-compliance with military conscription
not involve taking a public stand, are sometimes referred to as draft avoidance. Draft evaders are sometimes pejoratively referred to as draft dodgers
Draft_evasion
Light commercial vehicle
addition of new assistance systems (crosswind stabilization, collision avoidance system (optional), blind spot monitor (optional), adaptive highbeam, lane
Mercedes-Benz_Sprinter
Country in Western Europe
2015. Bowers, Simon (5 November 2014). "Luxembourg tax files: how tiny state rubber-stamped tax avoidance on an industrial scale". The Guardian. Archived
Luxembourg
American businessman and software engineer (born 1955)
"MP on Google tax avoidance scheme: 'I think that you do evil'". The Guardian. Staff, Telegraph (December 12, 2012). "Google's tax avoidance is called 'capitalism'
Eric_Schmidt
com) Archived July 26, 2008, at the Wayback Machine Tax evasion: Tax evasion by Microsoft in India Tax evasion by Microsoft in the United States User feedback:
Criticism_of_Microsoft
Building systems and facility management firm based in Cork, Ireland
Tyco International, announced on 25 January 2016. The merger led to the avoidance of taxation on foreign market operations and a financial windfall for
Johnson_Controls
American actor (born 1964)
He has said it is to increase one's imagination without restraint, in avoidance of experiencing the sense of being ingenuous. The process itself is about:
Nicolas_Cage
Compact car
includes Forward Collision-Avoidance Assist (FCA), Blind-Spot Collision-Avoidance Assist (BCA), Rear Cross Traffic Collision-Avoidance Assist (RCCA), Lane Keeping
Hyundai_Elantra
Political advocacy organization in Tennessee, United States
separate tax return, even if that company is just a subsidiary of a larger parent company. This makes Tennessee vulnerable to a host of tax avoidance schemes
Tennesseans_for_Fair_Taxation
American financier and child sex offender (1953–2019)
Pottinger, renting office space on Central Park South, and pitching tax-avoidance strategies to wealthy clients. Epstein sourced clients through former
Jeffrey_Epstein
Overview of Emmanuel Macron's political positions
compared the policy to the Cuban taxation system. Macron supports stopping tax avoidance. On 8 June 2021, Macron was slapped in the face during a visit to the
Political positions of Emmanuel Macron
Political_positions_of_Emmanuel_Macron
British politician (born 1943)
to tax avoidance to have people taxed at 40% or potentially 50% on their income, but only taxed at 18% on capital gains; it leads to large scale tax avoidance
Vince_Cable
Aspect of U.S. history
busting, and has been considered the 'founding father' of the modern union avoidance industry. Shefferman had been a member of the original NLRB, and became
History of union busting in the United States
History_of_union_busting_in_the_United_States
Puerto Rican self-subsistence farmer
Archive. Cruz-Janzen, Marta I. (2003). "Out of the Closet: Racial Amnesia, Avoidance, and Denial - Racism among Puerto Ricans". Race, Gender & Class. 10 (3):
Jíbaro_(Puerto_Rico)
Indian online beauty retailer
motive of the issuance along with concerns of market manipulation and tax avoidance. Later that month, CFO Arvind Agarwal resigned from the company, even
Nykaa
Harvest, transportation, purchase, or sale of timber in violation of laws
processing and export (through fraudulent declaration to customs); the avoidance of taxes and other charges, and fraudulent certification. These acts are often
Illegal_logging
Archbishop of Canterbury from 2013 to 2025
Welby said in December 2017 that tax avoidance was wrong and that many wealthy companies did not pay as much tax as they should. Welby said, "It is
Justin_Welby
American Orthodox rabbi and writer (born 1966)
stockpiles and rocket launch-pads, murders of LGBT Palestinians, and avoidance of fair elections "after fourteen autocratic years." Lipa rejected what
Shmuley_Boteach
August 13, 2014. "Switzerland ranked second-worst global facilitator of tax avoidance". SWI swissinfo.ch. May 18, 2022. Retrieved June 28, 2022. "CBO Budget
Economy_of_the_United_States
Full-size luxury sedan series produced by Lexus
LS 500 debuts with new 3.5 litre biturbo V6, 10-speed auto, pedestrian avoidance, 24-inch HUD". Paul Tan. Malaysia. Retrieved 14 January 2017. George,
Lexus_LS
Ongoing overuse of opioid medication in the US
to outweigh risks, and then used at the lowest effective dosage, with avoidance of concurrent opioid and benzodiazepine use whenever possible. Silvia
Opioid epidemic in the United States
Opioid_epidemic_in_the_United_States
American alt-tech social media service
[better source needed] In August 2019, Amazon Web Services ceased serving Gab's fundraising site due to Gab violating Amazon's policy on hateful content. In response
Gab_(social_network)
capacity for tax avoidance/sheltering since it would apply to overall global profits, and would not allow for reduction of the tax burden via tax deductions
Political positions of Elizabeth Warren
Political_positions_of_Elizabeth_Warren
American mass media and entertainment conglomerate (2022–present)
competition between WarnerMedia's businesses. He expected that "investment avoidance" via the consolidation of redundant business units (such as streaming)
Warner_Bros._Discovery
American telecommunications company
criticized Verizon for its tax avoidance procedures after it spent $52.34 million on lobbying while collecting $951 million in tax rebates between 2008 and
Verizon
Predominantly Scottish cloth pattern
been said to be "fed, in part, by tartan and Jacobite nostalgia". After avoidance of tartan since the 1970s (especially by Scottish liberals), the cloth
Tartan
British cosmetics company
supporter of anti-taxation-avoidance grouping UK Uncut and became the first multinational high-street retailer to secure a Fair Tax Mark in 2015. In 2007,
Lush_(company)
Fictional monster, or kaiju
Rebirth, participated in it. Financial vulnerability resulted in repeated avoidances from direct competitions against the Godzilla franchise, although there
Gamera
Season of television series
HD and SD on December 8, 2013 on iTunes, the Xbox Live Marketplace, and Amazon Video. Alternative titles for Aqua Teen Hunger Force List of Aqua Teen Hunger
Aqua Teen Hunger Force season 10
Aqua_Teen_Hunger_Force_season_10
Newspaper online services
2020). "Long-Concealed Records Show Trump's Chronic Losses and Years of Tax Avoidance". The New York Times. Retrieved November 1, 2023. Bures, Sarah (March
Online platforms of The New York Times
Online_platforms_of_The_New_York_Times
2025. Marcovitch, Jacques; Pinsky, Vanessa Cuzziol. Amazon Fund: financing deforestation avoidance. Journal of Administration (São Paulo), v.49, n.2, p
Climate_finance_in_Brazil
Episode list for an American late-night talk show
parliamentary election Guests: Rachel Dratch 127 8 Corporate tax avoidance in the United States, Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 April 15, 2018 (2018-04-15) 1
List of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver episodes
List_of_Last_Week_Tonight_with_John_Oliver_episodes
AMAZON TAX-AVOIDANCE
AMAZON TAX-AVOIDANCE
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant spelling of Amison.
Boy/Male
Hebrew
Lofty; exalted; high mountain. Biblically, Aaron was Moses' older brother (and keeper by God's...
Male
English
English form of Greek AarÅn (Hebrew Aharon), AARON means "light-bringer." In the bible, this is the name of the older brother of Moses.
Male
Hebrew
(תָּ×) Hebrew name TAM means "complete, whole" or "honest." Compare with another form of Tam.
Girl/Female
Latin
Amazon.
Male
Spanish
Spanish form of Latin Amator, AMADOR means "lover."
Girl/Female
Latin
Amazon.
Girl/Female
Latin
Amazon.
Girl/Female
Latin
Amazon.
Girl/Female
Latin
Amazon.
Male
English
English occupational surname transferred to forename use, derived from French maçon, MASON means "mason, stone-worker."
Girl/Female
Latin
Amazon.
Girl/Female
Latin Greek
Amazon.
Male
Scottish
Short form of Scottish Gaelic TÃ mhas, TAM means "twin." Compare with another form of Tam.
Male
English
American English form of German Dachs, DAX means "badger."Â
Female
Egyptian
, Taf-nekhta.
Boy/Male
Armenian, Australian, Hebrew, Jewish, Swahili
Lofty; Exalted; High Mountain; Biblically; Aaron; Moshea's Elder Brother
Female
Japanese
(アヴァãƒãƒ³) Japanese form of Celtic Avalon, AVARON means "island of apples."
Female
Hebrew
(טַל) Hebrew unisex name TAL means "dew."Â
Male
Hebrew
(×ַיָּלï‹×Ÿ) Variant form of Hebrew Ayal, AYALON means "deer, gazelle."
AMAZON TAX-AVOIDANCE
AMAZON TAX-AVOIDANCE
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant of Cruse.Americanized spelling of German and Jewish Kraus.
Boy/Male
Hindu, Indian, Marathi
Beloved; Dear
Female
Welsh
Unisex form of Welsh Angharad, ANARAWD means "undisgraced, free of shame."
Boy/Male
Tamil
First Ray of sunlight, Vishnus Ansh
Girl/Female
Australian, Christian, Hebrew, Irish, Latin
Bitterness
Boy/Male
Muslim/Islamic
Name of place in Saudi Arabia
Boy/Male
Irish
From an Irish name meaning “â€one who aids or assists.â€â€ It is usually translated as Terence and Terry, two names that have become strongly associated with Ireland. Turlough O’Carolan was a 17th century blind harpist and composer who wrote one of the most haunting pieces of Irish music, “â€O’Carolan’s Concerto.â€â€
Boy/Male
Indian
One of the kauravas
Girl/Female
Tamil
Ruby
Male
Icelandic
Icelandic form of Old Norse Fenrisúlfr, popularly translated "swamp wolf," but probably originally FENRISÚLFUR means "wolf of hell."
AMAZON TAX-AVOIDANCE
AMAZON TAX-AVOIDANCE
AMAZON TAX-AVOIDANCE
AMAZON TAX-AVOIDANCE
AMAZON TAX-AVOIDANCE
v. t.
To follow closely after; esp., to follow and touch in the game of tag. See Tag, a play.
v. t.
To form an internal screw in (anything) by means of a tool called a tap; as, to tap a nut.
v. t.
To smear with tar, or as with tar; as, to tar ropes; to tar cloth.
n.
A waxlike composition used for uniting surfaces, for excluding air, and for other purposes; as, sealing wax, grafting wax, etching wax, etc.
n.
To charge; to accuse; also, to censure; -- often followed by with, rarely by of before an indirect object; as, to tax a man with pride.
n.
Especially, the sum laid upon specific things, as upon polls, lands, houses, income, etc.; as, a land tax; a window tax; a tax on carriages, and the like.
n.
A yellowish-brown color, like that of tan.
v. t.
Not tense, firm, or rigid; loose; slack; as, a lax bandage; lax fiber.
n.
To assess, fix, or determine judicially, the amount of; as, to tax the cost of an action in court.
n.
A substance similar to beeswax, secreted by several species of scale insects, as the Chinese wax. See Wax insect, below.
n.
To subject to the payment of a tax or taxes; to impose a tax upon; to lay a burden upon; especially, to exact money from for the support of government.
v. t.
To smear or rub with wax; to treat with wax; as, to wax a thread or a table.
n.
A tag. See Tag, 2.
n.
A disagreeable or burdensome duty or charge; as, a heavy tax on time or health.
a.
Of the color of tan; yellowish-brown.
a.
Causing amazement; very wonderful; as, amazing grace.
v. i.
To pass from one state to another; to become; to grow; as, to wax strong; to wax warmer or colder; to wax feeble; to wax old; to wax worse and worse.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Amaze
n.
Alt. of Amazon stone
imp. & p. p.
of Amaze