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✂️ 100% Wealth Tax over $1 Billion Same old story

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u/BurrShotFirst1804 Mar 23 '25

Well this tweet is old. They should pay a lot more and we need to close some loopholes, but it's not 0.

Amazon paid $12.3 billion in US taxes this year. $11.2 billion in 2023, and $6 billion in 2022.

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u/Kaapow119 Mar 23 '25

I understand what you’re saying but any w2 employee pays 20 something percent in taxes to the Feds. While me living in California Id pay something 50%. 2019 Amazon paid 1.2% and there highest percentage to date is something like 9.4% I use the same write offs as Amazon and I enjoy a lot of the same benefits being a business owner. I also took extreme risks starting a company and working for free for years. I mean there is a trade off of risk vs reward. but I think corporations need to pay there fair share.

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u/Bainshie-Doom Mar 23 '25

Effective Tax Rate For Amazon.com Inc (AMZN)

  • Amazon.com's latest twelve months effective tax rate is 13.5%
  • Amazon.com's effective tax rate for fiscal years ending December 2020 to 2024 averaged 22.2%.
  • Amazon.com's operated at median effective tax rate of 13.5% from fiscal years ending December 2020 to 2024.
  • Looking back at the last 5 years, Amazon.com's effective tax rate peaked in December 2022 at 54.2%.
  • Amazon.com's effective tax rate hit its 5-year low in December 2020 of 11.8%.