“By setting up in Luxembourg, and channelling sales through its units there, the world’s biggest online retailer could minimise corporate taxes. It was a move with big financial consequences. Amazon’s Luxembourg arrangements have deprived European governments of hundreds of millions of dollars in tax that it might otherwise have owed, as reported in European newspapers. But a Reuters examination of accounts filed by 25 Amazon units in six countries shows how they also allowed the company to avoid paying more tax in the United States, where the company is based.”
http://uk.reuters.com/article/2012/12/06/uk-tax-amazon-idUKBRE8B50AT20121206
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