Paying Tax For Amazon

In the article, “Amazon.com is a 21st century Deal with the Devil” the author Amy Koss makes her piece an argumentative writing. She tries to persuade the reader that the company, Amazon, is cruel and untrustworthy. The author states,”They’re offering deals and deeper discounts, closing branches, consolidating staff, trying to fend off the inevitable. According to the feds, there have been 60,000 retail jobs in just the last two months.” I disagree with the author’s statement and believe that Amazon is just doing what they have to do, so they can make money and build a stronger business. It isn’t exactly Amazon’s fault that other businesses are closing making people loses their jobs. The other businesses must have their prices very high, making

Amazon.com, Inc. was founded by Jeff Bezos out of his own garage in July 1994 under the name of Cadabra. It went online in as Amazon.com in 1995. Since that time it has never looked back and is now the world's largest online retailer. It is an American multinational electronic commerce company with headquarters in Seattle, Washington, United States. With a total revenue of US$ 61.09 billion, it has a total of 88,400 employees as of December, 2012. At first it started as an online bookstore, but soon it diversified

Amazon.com is a worldwide American-based electronic company founded in 1994 by Jeff Bezos, the actual chairman and CEO. At the beginning, Amazon was just a small online book retailer, but thanks to the development of Internet at the end of the 90s, it grew quickly into a huge online retail store. Today, in the United States, one out of three online sales are made through Amazon’s website.

Globalization is a growing part of everyday businesses. This is the process of interaction and integration among people, companies, and governments of different nations. With the world of online retail, the buying and selling to one person to another has grown drastically. There has also been a substantial change in technology and what we as people can do in today’s time rather than in the past. Amazon is a huge retail giant and buying and selling items is one of their key functions. The impact made on Amazon is nothing but an advantage. Amazon currently is the 56th largest company in America by market capitalization. Being one the largest retailer around, 15th in the nation at that, Amazon has made a name for themselves. Amazon has made some very substantial growths and with these opportunities they face they can make even more advances in the future. (Globalization 101, 2016)

Amazon is the world’s largest online retailer that was launched in 1995 (Rouse, 2014). Amazon was mainly a book selling company that has enlarged its’ business by selling a variety of goods. The company sells all types of technology devices such as cell phones, games, televisions, movies, cameras, computers,

The less taxes we pay, the more lives we save. The United States has the highest corporate tax rate of the 34 developed, free market nations that make up the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (DECD). Unlike other countries, the United States pays a marginal corporate tax rate of 35% at the federal level and 39.2% state taxes are accounted. This is causing thousands of corporations to move operations out of the United States and into other countries. Therefore, the United States should lower the taxes of big corporations.

First, there are many negative aspects about taxes. According to my mom taxes take away money that you are living on. Taxes cause you to lose more money every year. The taxes rob people of their money. Many people should be able to have a choice on what they should spend their money on.

Amazon recorded a second quarter loss of $126m loss, or $0.27 per share in 2014, which was more than the $0.15 per share loss expected by analysts, according to data analyzed by Bloomberg and yet its share price rose substantially (Red Herring, 2014). The loss of revenue was due to several reasons. In a conference with analysts, Tom Szkutak, who is the Amazon.com Inc. CFO pointed out the increased investment in its cloud computing Amazon Web Service (AWS), in addition to the price reduction of the AWS for its customers as some of the reasons for the incurred high costs in the quarter (Red Herring, 2014). Other factors of the loss of revenue as explained by Szkutak was the slowdown in international sales mainly due to Japan’s 3% tax increase on consumer goods that came into effect in April 2014, in addition to the $100 million investment on producing Amazon’s TV shows for Amazon Prime customers in the third quarter of 2014 (Red Herring, 2014). The loss of revenue was also due to heavy investment in launching of its first smartphone called the Amazon Fire and a new subscription platform for e-books (Red Herring, 2014).

When people do not want to pay the high Chicago taxes the come to Indiana or the suburbs, but where do corporations go to make save their money from being taxed? They go to the countries with the lowest corporate tax rates which include Bermuda, The Cayman Islands, The Bahamas, and Ireland. Bermuda, The Bahamas, and The Cayman Islands have tax rates of 0%, while Ireland has a tax rate of 12.5% which is still significantly lower than most developed countries. Around 70 billion dollars every year are lost by the U.S. from these offshore tax shelter countries. The reason that these small islands choose to make such low tax rates is because they know they can attract the foreign money. They do not have many natural resources, so they make their money from vacationers and tax sheltering large corporations. Almost every large corporation in the United States, from Apple to Pfizer, relies on these islands to escape the taxes they would be paying in The United States. Although they do not actually have offices in these islands, in fact many only have a mailbox, the companies are able to claim taxes there because it is not illegal in the tax code. Also, the money never really makes its way to these small islands they only are there in a digital sense. Most of the products sold, knowledge and

, Inc. is an American multinational electronic commerce company in the online retail market. Its’ headquarters is in Seattle, Washington, United States. It is the world's largest online retailer, with different websites for large countries. Amazon was founded by Jeff Bezos in 1994 (the site went online in 1995). It started as an online bookstore, but soon diversified, selling DVDs, Music, software, games, electronics, apparel, furniture, food, and toys.

taxation, which inhibit the cost of delivery of the products. If Amazon does not absorb

But because due to globalization trend and investor has been expose with many alternative choices especially developing countries, US government has realized that high taxation and increased regulation in developed countries have persuaded investors or corporations to search for more favorable countries for investing and doing business, therefore, now United States still taxes the worldwide income of domestic entities, but allows a credit against U.S. tax liability for foreign taxes paid (Salinas, 2003, p 531).

Amazon was founded in 1994 by Jeff Bezos and originally began as an online bookstore (The History of Amazon). Since its creation, Amazon has branched and has turned into an online super store where consumers can buy just about anything: clothing, jewelry, electronics, health and beauty products, home appliances and more. By 2011, Amazon was raking in a staggering fifty billion dollars in revenue (Sawhney, 2014).

Tax is the government sources of revenue. Government collects tax from citizen of the country and also from the business firm. Every business firms must pay tax for the betterment of the country. Business firms pay much higher taxes then the citizen of the country. But there are some sectors where’s government provide tax incentives. So investors must look after these kind of sectors and make investment over there.

The problem of taxation of international businesses was noticed in the 1920s. It was noted that interaction of domestic tax system of two different countries can result in double taxation and in such way negatively affect growth of global economy. International laws were introduced in order to avoid double taxation and support global economy. However nowadays in a much more globalized economy, such international rules create opportunities to minimize or avoid paying taxes in both of the countries the business is established. The states that decided to provide such opportunities are now known as “ tax havens”