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Taxing profit is essentially a tax break for spending. Amazon.com in the US reinvests almost everything it makes back into Amazon from what I understand (please correct me if I'm wrong). Is it ok for them to pay no taxes?

Let's say someone buys $1B worth of junk, has expenses like salary etc of $1B, does something with it and sells products and services worth $2.2B. Do they pay taxes on $2.2B or on $0.2B? I think we can fix some kinds of tax dodging by taxing the $2.2B. If I'm on a low margin business, that's not the government's problem to pick winners and losers, right?

parent mcny 9 years ago

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