{"id":18505,"date":"2025-04-15T07:37:57","date_gmt":"2025-04-15T05:37:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/15\/silicon-six-accused-of-avoiding-almost-278bn-in-us-corporation-taxes-over-10-years\/"},"modified":"2025-04-15T07:37:57","modified_gmt":"2025-04-15T05:37:57","slug":"silicon-six-accused-of-avoiding-almost-278bn-in-us-corporation-taxes-over-10-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/15\/silicon-six-accused-of-avoiding-almost-278bn-in-us-corporation-taxes-over-10-years\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Silicon Six\u2019 accused of avoiding almost $278bn in US corporation taxes over 10 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Analysis finds Amazon, Meta, Alphabet, Netflix, Apple and Microsoft averaged 18.8%, compared with 29.7% US average<\/p>\n<p>The big American tech firms known as the \u201cSilicon Six\u201d have been accused of paying almost $278bn (\u00a3211bn) less corporate income tax in the past decade compared with the statutory rate for US companies making the same profits.<\/p>\n<p>Amazon, Meta, Alphabet, Netflix, Apple and Microsoft generated $11tn of revenue and $2.5tn of profits over the past 10 years.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/apr\/15\/silicon-six-accused-of-avoiding-almost-278bn-in-us-corporation-taxes-over-10-years\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/72706743f9953ce1da38ed9a9f4f9f31fd4c7035\/0_72_2042_1226\/master\/2042.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=cc07107a9614bdd7cef186c7ef0250bb\" title=\"\u2018Silicon Six\u2019 accused of avoiding almost $278bn in US corporation taxes over 10 years\" \/>Analysis finds Amazon, Meta, Alphabet, Netflix, Apple and Microsoft averaged 18.8%, compared with 29.7% US average<br \/>\nThe big American tech firms known as the \u201cSilicon Six\u201d have been accused of paying almost $278bn (\u00a3211bn) less corporate income tax in the past decade compared with the statutory rate for US companies making the same profits.<br \/>\nAmazon, Meta, Alphabet, Netflix, Apple and Microsoft generated $11tn of revenue and $2.5tn of profits over the past 10 years. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Analysis finds Amazon, Meta, Alphabet, Netflix, Apple and Microsoft averaged 18.8%, compared with 29.7% US average The big American tech firms known as the \u201cSilicon Six\u201d have been accused of paying almost $278bn (\u00a3211bn) less corporate income tax in the past decade compared with the statutory rate for US companies making the same profits. Amazon, &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/15\/silicon-six-accused-of-avoiding-almost-278bn-in-us-corporation-taxes-over-10-years\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u2018Silicon Six\u2019 accused of avoiding almost $278bn in US corporation taxes over 10 years<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":18506,"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\/18505"}],"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=18505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18505\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}