Amazon UK arm pays £3.8m more corporation tax despite £1.9bn sales rise
by Sarah Butler from on (#5P926)
Company says UK business as a whole paid out 492m in direct taxes' in 2020 - up from 293m in previous year
Amazon's key UK business paid just 3.8m more corporation tax last year than in 2019, even as sales increased by 1.89bn.
Accounts filed at Companies House this week show that the corporation tax contribution of Amazon UK Services - the group's warehouse and logistics operation, thought to employ the majority of the group's UK workforce - was 18.3m in the year to December 2020, up 26% from 14.5m a year before.
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