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> They don't pay for the roads They do pay taxes...

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• vuln 8y ago
  Which taxes? https://itep.org/amazon-inc-paid-zero-in-federal-taxes-in-2017-gets-789-million-windfall-from-new-tax-law/ https://itep.org/amazon-inc-paid-zero-in-federal-taxes-in-20...
  • gruez 8y ago
    state taxes?
    • vuln 8y ago
      Amazon doesn't even collect the correct amount of sales tax. So yet again it is ripping off the states in which is does business. "According to an analysis from the ITEP, the gap between the tax rate that some local tax jurisdictions impose and what Amazon collects can be as much as 7.5 percentage points in Homer, AK., for example." http://fortune.com/2018/03/29/amazon-tax-rate-president-donald-trump/ http://fortune.com/2018/03/29/amazon-tax-rate-president-dona...
      • artursapek 8y ago
        Is Amazon breaking a law?
        • d3ad1ysp0rk 8y ago
          Laws aren't morals
          • artursapek 8y ago
            Do you pay more taxes than you legally have to because you have better morals?
      • Rebelgecko 8y ago
        Alaska doesn't have a state sales tax, so presumably that's all city or county taxes. Does Amazon have the same obligation to collect those that they do for state taxes?
  • cycrutchfield 8y ago
    Presumably gas taxes, which in most states go towards funding road maintenance
    • vuln 8y ago
      Amazon pays for it's 3rd party (1099) workers gas? That's news to me... Amazon does not own any semi trucks. 'To be clear, Amazon purchased only the trailers and will use third-party companies for the actual truck cabs and drivers. The original source report did not make clear there was a distinction.' https://www.technobuffalo.com/2015/12/04/amazon-prime-now-has-its-own-fleet-of-semi-trucks/ https://www.technobuffalo.com/2015/12/04/amazon-prime-now-ha...
      • whafro 8y ago
        I think the point was that Amazon pays salaries/wages, the recipients buy gas for their personal vehicles, and that gas is taxed to pay for the roads. Presumably Amazon funds paid to delivery services are also used to pay for gas, which therefore indirectly pays for the roads.
      • Johnny555 8y ago
        They do, that's part of the pay. You could make a (good) argument that they are underpaying their contract drivers, but nontheless -- everytime they pay a contract driver to drop a package off at your house, Amazon is paying for that gas in their pay to the delivery driver. The same is true when they use a commercial delivery service at all -- the cost of fuel tax is bundled into the delivery price. Whether Amazon owns any trucks of their own is immaterial, if they are contracting with Amazom, Amazon is ultimately paying for the fuel (including taxes).
    • notatoad 8y ago
      "user fees" like gas taxes pay for less than half the cost of road maintenance. If you use the roads and the only taxes you're paying are gas taxes, you aren't paying your fair share. https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2015/05/debunking-the-myth-that-only-drivers-pay-for-roads/393134/ https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2015/05/debunking-the...
  • adventured 8y ago
    Amazon paid $361 million in income taxes in the last two quarters. They're now a profitable corporation and will pay taxes as every other profitable corporation does. And given the rate of increase in that profitability, they're going to start paying billions in taxes annually.
• johnchristopher 8y ago
  As much as any citizen or much less ?
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