Analysis finds Amazon, Meta, Alphabet, Netflix, Apple and Microsoft averaged 18.8%, compared with 29.7% US average

The big American tech firms known as the “Silicon Six” have been accused of paying almost $278bn (£211bn) less corporate income tax in the past decade compared with the statutory rate for US companies making the same profits.

Amazon, Meta, Alphabet, Netflix, Apple and Microsoft generated $11tn of revenue and $2.5tn of profits over the past 10 years.

Yet they paid an average 18.8% in combined national and federal corporation taxes, compared with an average 29.7% in the US, according to the Fair Tax Foundation (FTF), which said the Silicon Six had “hardwired” tax avoidance into their business models.

Analysis by the not-for-profit organisation found that if one-off repatriation tax payments in the US connected to historical tax avoidance were excluded, the average corporate income tax contribution of the six firms fell to 16.1% over the past decade.

  • quetzaldilla@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    5 天前

    1. Boycott and talk to others around you as to why you are boycotting.

    2. Create fake amazing resumes, apply for high-level jobs at Starbucks, Amazon, etc.

    3. Waste their time with interviews, then bail out. Tell them you changed your mind because they have a toxic reputation.

    4. If you already work for one of these corporations, sabotage their operations. There’s manuals out there on how to conduct sabotage, but it can be as simple as relaying the wrong day or time for meetings to waste everyone’s time, or finding things that are not exactly according to policy and making a big deal about the importance of following policy to the letter, etc.