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Amazon does not pay taxes from salaries. The employees pay taxes from salaries. Amazon, if you moved to Mars, shouldn't reduce your salary because you're not pa

• leetcrew 7y ago
  > Amazon does not pay taxes from salaries. for the one millionth time, it doesn't actually matter whether you pay income tax or your employer pays it for you. [0] if you want to be precise, amazon doesn't pay income tax, but it does have to pay payroll taxes for each employee, which is proportional to the income they are paid. > Amazon, if you moved to Mars, shouldn't reduce your salary because you're not paying tax to the UK. amazon changes payscales based on local COL at all if it's offices. if enough employees lived in a zero income tax environment to matter, amazon (or any other large company) would absolutely shift salaries down. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_incidence https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_incidence
• bartread 7y ago
  > Amazon does not pay taxes from salaries. The employees pay taxes from salaries. Yes. If you read what I wrote that is actually what I said. The larger point is that the government receives tax from Amazon's employees so that, even in the absence of corporation tax, there is a benefit to the country of Amazon operating there. Not to mention that providing jobs is in itself a good thing. Again, to be clear, I'm not saying it's right or fair that they pay little corporation tax.