Amazon UK pays 3% more in tax despite 35% rise in profits

Online retail giant says potentially higher corporation tax bill was offset by infrastructure investments

Amazon's key UK business paid just 3% more tax last year when profits rose by more than a third as the online retailer benefited from the switch to home shopping.

The group's warehouse and logistics operation, which employs more than two-thirds of its 30,000-plus UK workforce, Amazon UK Services, said its corporation tax contribution was 14.46m in 2019, up from 14.03m the year before. Pretax profits at the division soared 35% to nearly 102m as revenues rose by 29% to nearly 3bn, according to accounts about to be published by Companies House.