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> Amazon pays absolutely mind-bogglingly immense amounts of payroll taxes Payroll taxes and income tax have a different intent, and the money from them goes to
by greendude29 7y ago
> Amazon pays absolutely mind-bogglingly immense amounts of payroll taxes
Payroll taxes and income tax have a different intent, and the money from them goes to different ends. Paying payroll taxes does not relinquish your duty towards paying your income taxes and has no relation to the above.
> The people they employ pay income taxes, as well, which come out of Amazon’s revenue ultimately.
It is mindboggling to hear that. "Amazon's revenue" is not generated via magic, but people's work. When someone works for Amazon and gets paid for it, Amazon is not doing them a favor and giving them a portion of their revenue, it is the money that solely belongs to the person who earned it.
That person is paying the taxes from their revenue, not Amazon. The person in this case is taking a cut from their dues for the work they to support society and the infrastructure that industry (like Amazon) runs on.
Amazon is absolutely skirting its responsibilities by not paying income taxes, and this should be considered deeply unethical by all.
- sneak 7y agoI think you are confusing morals (subjective) and ethics (objective). Complying with the tax law, as written, is not itself an unethical act. People disagree on whether or not paying the minimum amount of tax required by law is moral or not. I believe that most people generally agree that the tax law’s current angle of not taxing companies without profits is a reasonable decision.