Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Amazon Inc. Paid Zero in Federal Taxes in 2017, Gets $789 Million Windfall from New Tax Law
ITEP ^ | 02/13/18

Posted on 02/27/2018 9:12:10 AM PST by Enlightened1

click here to read article


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-43 next last
To: ctdonath2

“What’s wrong is taxing their income as a group, AND as individuals. “

Salaries are a deduction for the corporation.


21 posted on 02/27/2018 9:53:20 AM PST by TexasGator (Z)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 17 | View Replies]

To: Enlightened1

And yet Bezos won’t quit bashing Trump. Go figure.


22 posted on 02/27/2018 9:56:07 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Buckeye McFrog

Bezos has not given his employees a bonus either. One of the richest men in the world and the cheapest.


23 posted on 02/27/2018 10:04:52 AM PST by magua
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 22 | View Replies]

To: Enlightened1; Mariner; Scotswife; Rome2000; Jarhead9297; lightman; nopardons; kearnyirish2; ...
All I know I made no where near this amount and I owe taxes. I guess it really pays well to have good lobbyists.

Yup. And Amazon, Google, Twitter, Apple, and the rest of these corporations are making out like bandits, while millions of middle class from high tax states are getting screwed. On top of that, those corporations getting Billion dollar windfalls hate Trump and Conservatives, while we Trump supporters are sent the bill to make up for lost cold pirate tax revenue.

Many of us repeated this problem (the elimination of capping of individual deductions to “pay for” slashing the corporate rate) last fall through December until we were blue in the face. No one would listen. I pre-paid some 2018 taxes so as to get less screwed by the IRS this April, but that is a band-aid on a gaping wound.

A friend of mine who owns an accounting and tax consultant business says that many of his contacts in Washington told him that the SALT issue will have to be revisited, because it screws over so many middle class families. But I am not holding my breath on that one.

24 posted on 02/27/2018 10:11:14 AM PST by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 5 | View Replies]

cold pirate =
corporate


25 posted on 02/27/2018 10:12:53 AM PST by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 24 | View Replies]

To: Enlightened1

Bezos ought to show a little gratitude and let up a bit on trashing Trump through that paper (WP) he owns.


26 posted on 02/27/2018 10:17:58 AM PST by Pearls Before Swine ("Married with children.")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: FiddlePig
If Amazon paid zero taxes, how do they then get a “tax break”?

You didn't really ask that did you????

You're not supposed to, this is all about hating Amazon, not for wondering about silly things like you just did.

27 posted on 02/27/2018 10:24:47 AM PST by Balding_Eagle ( The Great Wall of Trump ---- 100% sealing of the border. Coming soon.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: FiddlePig

Mr. Trump, do something...


28 posted on 02/27/2018 11:01:53 AM PST by Iscool
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: magua
One of the richest men in the world and the cheapest.

At $108 Billion he is the richest if you don't count evil tyrants who don't report income.

29 posted on 02/27/2018 11:32:56 AM PST by itsahoot (There will be division, as long as there is money to be divided.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 23 | View Replies]

To: itsahoot

New Age Robber Barons


30 posted on 02/27/2018 11:57:34 AM PST by kaktuskid
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 29 | View Replies]

To: TexasGator

http://fortune.com/2017/07/16/amazon-postal-service-subsidy/


31 posted on 02/27/2018 2:16:45 PM PST by Dr. Zzyzx
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 19 | View Replies]

To: Enlightened1

Yes, its time time to stop subsidizing Bezo’s shipping with the USPS.... Its unfair trade competition, and should be illegal.


32 posted on 02/27/2018 2:21:06 PM PST by HamiltonJay
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: TexasGator

Here you go,

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/for-every-amazon-package-it-delivers-the-postal-service-loses-146/article/2632857


33 posted on 02/27/2018 3:32:12 PM PST by Enlightened1
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 19 | View Replies]

To: SkyPilot

I think the reason it was done was to pressure States with high taxes like California and New York. It will force them to lower their taxes or risk losing people leaving the State to more tax friendly states like Florida or Texas.


34 posted on 02/27/2018 3:34:07 PM PST by Enlightened1
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 24 | View Replies]

To: Enlightened1
I think the reason it was done was to pressure States with high taxes like California and New York. It will force them to lower their taxes or risk losing people leaving the State to more tax friendly states like Florida or Texas.

That will never happen.

The states don't care about families and people that work. We are only a well to be run dry for them.

As I said again, and again, and again during the entire Tax Bill debate, it gives a massive tax break to Facebook, Google, Twitter, and Amazon, and raises taxes on millions of us.

Nice.

35 posted on 02/27/2018 3:56:00 PM PST by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 34 | View Replies]

To: Enlightened1

Dude, go back and look at your previous post and compare it to the article you posted and scan for your error!


36 posted on 02/27/2018 4:24:29 PM PST by TexasGator (Z)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 33 | View Replies]

To: Dr. Zzyzx

Not relevant.


37 posted on 02/27/2018 4:25:29 PM PST by TexasGator (Z)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 31 | View Replies]

To: FiddlePig
From the article you obviously did not read:

Instead of paying these deferred taxes at the previous 35 percent rate, Amazon now gets an extra reward for postponing the taxation of this income: a 40 percent discount from 35 to 21 percent. This is the source of Amazon’s $789 million windfall.

They are NOT receiving $789 million. They will be paying $789 million less than previously owed.

38 posted on 02/27/2018 4:32:12 PM PST by ShadowAce (Linux - The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: SkyPilot

“Yup. And Amazon, Google, Twitter, Apple, and the rest of these corporations are making out like bandits,”

They crawled into bed and got cozy with the ruling elites. They’re part of the donor class.

Corporations have been doing this for decades! The ruling elites response is throw in more costly regulations that the little guy can’t afford but the donor class can. Screw the little guy.

Spent a few weeks in a formerly communist country when I was a grad student in the early 80’s. There was no middle class!! Just the ruling elites, their money supply, and the peons.

I was so shocked that a relative of mine that was V.P. of a bank, a wife who was a school teacher had less then I did as a student paying her own way.

“Caring” socialism (i.e. manipulating socialist) is just a façade for totalitarianism.


39 posted on 02/27/2018 4:53:33 PM PST by lizma2
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 24 | View Replies]

To: lizma2
Did you ever see the movie with Robin Williams called "Moscow on the Hudson?"

Moscow On The Hudson Coffee Coffee Coffee

The grocery store scene chronicles what a former Soviet slave encounters when he sees a western supermarket for the first time.

Years before this movie was made, a relative of mine was allowed to have a friend of our family was reunited with a relative who escaped from behind the Iron Curtain. The first time they took her to a grocery store, she thought they had played an elaborate ruse on her. She claimed that US government had taken all of the food from the entire state and put it in one place to try to make her think there was this amount of food available in America.

40 posted on 02/27/2018 5:20:13 PM PST by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 39 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-43 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson