May 17, 2021
Bezos has said he supports raising the corporate tax rate. But Amazon has long been the subject of protests about tax avoidance.
According to calculations by the progressive Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy in February, in 2020 Amazon only paid a 9.4% federal income tax rate, less than half the statutory 21%. Read more
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