Re: Just say No to Amazon
"Why don't they give Amazon the full on HMRC rectal treatment? There should be a few dozen million wrongly credited or something."
Probably because the accountants and solicitors employed at Amazon know more about the UK tax code than the civil servants at HMRC. You get what you pay for. There have likely been some audits that made the government staff look pretty silly to have to have outsiders explain the tax codes to them.
To say that Amazon had £2billion in sales (gross revenue) doesn't mean a whole lot. In many cases, Amazon is the front for smaller sellers and it just providing fulfillment services. They're getting 10-15% on the sale less expenses. So that's more like £17m on whatever is left of £200million minus deductions. But those numbers don't make for big headlines.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
