{"id":2751,"date":"2021-09-07T22:48:17","date_gmt":"2021-09-07T20:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/09\/07\/amazon-uk-arm-pays-3-8m-more-corporation-tax-despite-1-9bn-sales-rise\/"},"modified":"2021-09-07T22:48:17","modified_gmt":"2021-09-07T20:48:17","slug":"amazon-uk-arm-pays-3-8m-more-corporation-tax-despite-1-9bn-sales-rise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/09\/07\/amazon-uk-arm-pays-3-8m-more-corporation-tax-despite-1-9bn-sales-rise\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon UK arm pays \u00a33.8m more corporation tax despite \u00a31.9bn sales rise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Company says UK business as a whole paid out \u00a3492m in \u2018direct taxes\u2019 in 2020 \u2013 up from \u00a3293m in previous year<\/p>\n<p>Amazon\u2019s key UK business paid just \u00a33.8m more corporation tax last year than in 2019, even as sales increased by \u00a31.89bn.<\/p>\n<p>Accounts filed at Companies House this week show that the corporation tax contribution of Amazon UK Services \u2013 the group\u2019s warehouse and logistics operation, thought to employ the majority of the group\u2019s UK workforce \u2013 was \u00a318.3m in the year to December 2020, up 26% from \u00a314.5m a year before.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2021\/sep\/07\/amazon-uk-arm-pays-38m-more-corporation-tax-despite-19bn-sales-rise\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/a6e93a0709d2e174c741a93689f749040357e15b\/0_182_4542_2725\/master\/4542.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=7a4f9f19e44e3464ef889649159b7039\" title=\"Amazon UK arm pays \u00a33.8m more corporation tax despite \u00a31.9bn sales rise\" \/>Company says UK business as a whole paid out \u00a3492m in \u2018direct taxes\u2019 in 2020 \u2013 up from \u00a3293m in previous year<br \/>\nAmazon\u2019s key UK business paid just \u00a33.8m more corporation tax last year than in 2019, even as sales increased by \u00a31.89bn.<br \/>\nAccounts filed at Companies House this week show that the corporation tax contribution of Amazon UK Services \u2013 the group\u2019s warehouse and logistics operation, thought to employ the majority of the group\u2019s UK workforce \u2013 was \u00a318.3m in the year to December 2020, up 26% from \u00a314.5m a year before. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Company says UK business as a whole paid out \u00a3492m in \u2018direct taxes\u2019 in 2020 \u2013 up from \u00a3293m in previous year Amazon\u2019s key UK business paid just \u00a33.8m more corporation tax last year than in 2019, even as sales increased by \u00a31.89bn. Accounts filed at Companies House this week show that the corporation tax &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/09\/07\/amazon-uk-arm-pays-3-8m-more-corporation-tax-despite-1-9bn-sales-rise\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Amazon UK arm pays \u00a33.8m more corporation tax despite \u00a31.9bn sales rise<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":2752,"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\/2751"}],"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=2751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2751\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}