{"id":1357,"date":"2021-05-04T05:37:11","date_gmt":"2021-05-04T03:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/05\/04\/amazon-had-sales-income-of-e44bn-in-europe-in-2020-but-paid-no-corporation-tax\/"},"modified":"2021-05-04T05:37:11","modified_gmt":"2021-05-04T03:37:11","slug":"amazon-had-sales-income-of-e44bn-in-europe-in-2020-but-paid-no-corporation-tax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/05\/04\/amazon-had-sales-income-of-e44bn-in-europe-in-2020-but-paid-no-corporation-tax\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon had sales income of \u20ac44bn in Europe in 2020 but paid no corporation tax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite lockdown surge the firm\u2019s Luxembourg unit made a \u20ac1.2bn loss and therefore paid zero corporation tax<\/p>\n<p>Fresh questions have been raised over Amazon\u2019s tax planning after its latest corporate filings in Luxembourg revealed that the company collected record sales income of \u20ac44bn (\u00a338bn) in Europe last year but did not have to pay any corporation tax to the Grand Duchy.<\/p>\n<p>Accounts for Amazon EU Sarl, through which it sells products to hundreds of millions of households in the UK and across Europe, show that despite collecting record income, the Luxembourg unit made a \u20ac1.2bn loss and therefore paid no tax.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2021\/may\/04\/amazon-sales-income-europe-corporation-tax-luxembourg\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/9f367a46c5faacfe99592899b07bf8cef1eb7e24\/0_294_4864_2918\/master\/4864.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=6fe838da205553393e54859b7a5b5937\" title=\"Amazon had sales income of \u20ac44bn in Europe in 2020 but paid no corporation tax\" \/>Despite lockdown surge the firm\u2019s Luxembourg unit made a \u20ac1.2bn loss and therefore paid zero corporation tax<br \/>\nFresh questions have been raised over Amazon\u2019s tax planning after its latest corporate filings in Luxembourg revealed that the company collected record sales income of \u20ac44bn (\u00a338bn) in Europe last year but did not have to pay any corporation tax to the Grand Duchy.<br \/>\nAccounts for Amazon EU Sarl, through which it sells products to hundreds of millions of households in the UK and across Europe, show that despite collecting record income, the Luxembourg unit made a \u20ac1.2bn loss and therefore paid no tax. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite lockdown surge the firm\u2019s Luxembourg unit made a \u20ac1.2bn loss and therefore paid zero corporation tax Fresh questions have been raised over Amazon\u2019s tax planning after its latest corporate filings in Luxembourg revealed that the company collected record sales income of \u20ac44bn (\u00a338bn) in Europe last year but did not have to pay any &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/05\/04\/amazon-had-sales-income-of-e44bn-in-europe-in-2020-but-paid-no-corporation-tax\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Amazon had sales income of \u20ac44bn in Europe in 2020 but paid no corporation tax<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1358,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1357"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1357\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}