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Trump Attacks Amazon, Saying It Does Not Pay Enough Taxes
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#22As long as they play within the rules, fair game. If Trump doesn't like the rules, don't single out a company, change the game.
What rules though?
If they’re not turning a profit there’s no income tax owed.
Just because he lacks the ability to understand slightly complex concepts doesn’t make them “unfair”.
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#23Wrong country and maybe wrong company. Apple pays so few taxes in Germany – approximated 2,8% taxes on their earnings – that the public is totally pissed (but it is for incomprehensible reasons legal). World wide Apple made ~62 billion dollar last year, but paid only ~25 million tax in Germany (0,2% of the total). At the same time they sell a lot of products here, this is so wrong. I guess Amazon is not better, but t…
Most resources say they make ~25-30 billion a year in revenue in Europe, and the idea that Germany makes up the majority of said revenue is a bit silly. Did they pay taxes on the revenue they made in Germany? If so, I'm not sure what your problem is with them? Are you saying that they, a company that owes nothing to Germany, given it wasn't helped by the country at all really in terms of benefits, talent or monetaril…
> Did they pay taxes on the products they sold in Germany?
VAT is a tax paid by the consumer, not vendor or manufacturer.
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#24In his own words that makes them smart, right? https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-taxes-smart/
Yes, which makes the Gov dumb for letting them get away with it. That's why he became president, to fix dumb things (in his opinion) in government.
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#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
Most resources say they make ~25-30 billion a year in revenue in Europe, and the idea that Germany makes up the majority of said revenue is a bit silly. Did they pay taxes on the revenue they made in Germany? If so, I'm not sure what your problem is with them? Are you saying that they, a company that owes nothing to Germany, given it wasn't helped by the country at all really in terms of benefits, talent or monetaril…
> Did they pay taxes on the products they sold in Germany? VAT is a tax paid by the consumer, not vendor or manufacturer.
Corporate tax exists in Germany,which is what I was inferring to - although I did use unfortunate wording. I'll edit that a bit.
Re: Trump Attacks Amazon, Saying It Does Not Pay Enough Taxes
#26Wrong country and maybe wrong company. Apple pays so few taxes in Germany – approximated 2,8% taxes on their earnings – that the public is totally pissed (but it is for incomprehensible reasons legal). World wide Apple made ~62 billion dollar last year, but paid only ~25 million tax in Germany (0,2% of the total). At the same time they sell a lot of products here, this is so wrong. I guess Amazon is not better, but t…
Most resources say they make ~25-30 billion a year in revenue in Europe, and the idea that Germany makes up the majority of said revenue is a bit silly. Did they pay taxes on the revenue they made in Germany? If so, I'm not sure what your problem is with them? Are you saying that they, a company that owes nothing to Germany, given it wasn't helped by the country at all really in terms of benefits, talent or monetaril…
> Did they pay taxes on the products they sold in Germany?
Almost not.
> If so, I'm not sure what your problem is with them?
Apple is probably the company paying fewest taxes of all companies in Germany. Normal mortals pay much much more taxes.
There is a difference between paying almost no taxes, and paying the same tax as everyone else. In the end small businesses can't move their money to Cayman islands or wherever and factually circumvent the law. We have a lot of old infrastructure which needs some money, like schools: http://www.spiegel.de/lebenundlernen/schule/lehrerverband-fo... -> such buildings are not uncommon in certain areas.
One of the biggest newspapers and one of the most prestigious in Germany (Zeit) estimated that Europe lost alone over iPhone sales in the last five years 8 billion euro taxes.
Re: Trump Attacks Amazon, Saying It Does Not Pay Enough Taxes
#27And this has nothing to do with Bezos owning the Washington Post. Because Trump would never let personal animus cloud his expertly formed opinion
Re: Trump Attacks Amazon, Saying It Does Not Pay Enough Taxes
#28Checkout financials
https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/AMZN/financials?p=AMZN
Please look at profitability. Who says Amazon doesn't make a profit?
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#29what's this guy's problem? He has problem with immigrants, he has problem with every other country, he has problems with people from his own administration, and now he has problems with companies that contribute to the economy..No wonders Melania always wears that fuck face everytime she has to be with him !!
Please don't post like this again here.
Re: Trump Attacks Amazon, Saying It Does Not Pay Enough Taxes
#30In his own words that makes them smart, right? https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-taxes-smart/
Yes, which makes the Gov dumb for letting them get away with it. That's why he became president, to fix dumb things (in his opinion) in government.
So he's combatting the wealthy paying too little in taxes by giving major tax breaks to the wealthy?