I think you are wrong: - I'm sure Amazon did its best to pay the lowest possible tax. In EU they are taxed on profit so if they woundn't make a profit(i.e. the

I think you are wrong: - I'm sure Amazon did its best to pay the lowest possible tax. In EU they are taxed on profit so if they woundn't make a profit(i.e. they would reinvest) they would not be taxed. - Amazon Europe is not Amazon US. They don't want to trade as Amazon US in Europe because they would pay even more tax(in the US). - It's not enough that they are registered in a country with the lowest possible tax, they get a special deal there too to pay less tax than the other Luxembourg based companies/business. This is what EU is sueing them for...they've got state aid(as tax break) from Luxembourg.