Amazon Will Pay a Whopping $0 in Federal Taxes on $11.2 Billion Profits

Ride this motherfucker till the wheels fall off!

2/14/2019 5:20:04 PM

Those wondering how many zeros Amazon, which is valued at nearly $800 billion, has to pay in federal taxes might be surprised to learn that its check to the IRS will read exactly $0.00.

According to a report published by the Institute on Taxation and Economic (ITEP) policy Wednesday, the e-tail/retail/tech/entertainment/everything giant won’t have to pay a cent in federal taxes for the second year in a row.

This tax-free break comes even though Amazon almost doubled its U.S. profits from $5.6 billion to $11.2 billion between 2017 and 2018.

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san_jose_guy

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6 years ago

Do you know how they avoid such taxes? Usually corporations can just reabsorb profits so that they are no longer profits. But if they pay share holder dividends, then know they then do have to pay corporate taxes.

How much it is valued at is irrelevant to its tax liability.

It comes down to how you are counting profits.

SJG

Papi_Chulo

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6 years ago

As long as they are not breaking a law, then they are doing what anyone else would do - I yet to see anyone that tries to pay more taxes than they have to - if there is a bad-law that is being abused then change the fucking law

skibum609

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6 years ago

More false flag bullshit. How much did their employees pai n Federal income taxes? State income taxes? Social Security? Medicare? How much did Amazon pay in Social Security? Medicare? More lies from the pathological liars called progressives.

san_jose_guy

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6 years ago

The OP was talking about corporate income tax.

SJG

Papi_Chulo

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6 years ago

I would imagine/assume they still pay plenty in other ways including likely a good-amount in unnecessary regulation-compliance (not that all regulation is bad but likely there's too-much $$$ wasted on a lot of it)

mark94

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6 years ago

And, they get a huge subsidy from the USPS which delivers a high percent of their goods. The postal service charges below market rates. If they didn’t do that with Amazon and junk mail, they’d have to reduce their workforce. In fact, between email, FedEx, and UPS, we should probably just let the USPS go out of business.

san_jose_guy

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6 years ago

But we don't want to be making tax give aways to keep businesses going, or to maintain jobs.

No reason for such.

SJG

san_jose_guy

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6 years ago

Wendy Brown explains it best:

Wendy Brown. In the account of Neoliberalism. 2016
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqQ_dIjr…

SJG

flagooner

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6 years ago

I blame Bush.

skibum609

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6 years ago

Wendy Brown lol. Progressive silliness.

san_jose_guy

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6 years ago

Wendy Brown, one of the best at explaining how crazy the current state of neo-liberal affairs is.

Amazon is getting some sort of a federal tax rebate, for reasons not known.

SJG

extremely good:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEk1JAky…

Henry Monnier, cartoonist Merriman mentions.
https://medias.expertissim.com/media/cac…

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