British buddies - petition about Amazon's nonpayment of taxes

[NaokoSmith]

Petition to get Amazon to pay a fair tax in the UK:

Across the UK high street shops are struggling. The unrelenting pressure from huge online retailers undercutting prices and tough economic times have pushed many independent businesses to the brink.

The UK's largest online retailer, Amazon, made sales of over £3.3 billion in 2011 but didn't pay any corporation tax on the profits they made in the UK*.

Frances and Keith have run the Warwick and Kenilworth bookshops for the past ten years. They don't believe that Amazon should be able to dodge huge taxes and undermine local businesses who pay their fair share of UK tax.

That's why they've started a petition on Change.org calling for Amazon to pay its tax. Click above to join them.

All Amazon UK book sales are routed through their Luxembourg subsidiary. So when the British public buy goods from Amazon, they are in fact paying a Luxembourg company. This means Amazon can avoid paying British corporation tax on the profits it makes.

 

[oggbashan]

Signed and donated.

 

[NaokoSmith]

Signed and donated.

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BTW, Steve recommends a great sounding alternative site to Amazon called Hive, if you're interested. I'm about to make my first order with them, I'll report back.

 

[oggbashan]

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BTW, Steve recommends a great sounding alternative site to Amazon called Hive, if you're interested. I'm about to make my first order with them, I'll report back.

I use abebooks.co.uk or .com because I usually buy secondhand.

 

[Handley_Page]

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BTW, Steve recommends a great sounding alternative site to Amazon called Hive, if you're interested. I'm about to make my first order with them, I'll report back.

And very useful. Thanks

 

[NekoParks]

Petition to get Amazon to pay a fair tax in the UK:

Across the UK high street shops are struggling. The unrelenting pressure from huge online retailers undercutting prices and tough economic times have pushed many independent businesses to the brink.

The UK's largest online retailer, Amazon, made sales of over £3.3 billion in 2011 but didn't pay any corporation tax on the profits they made in the UK*.

Frances and Keith have run the Warwick and Kenilworth bookshops for the past ten years. They don't believe that Amazon should be able to dodge huge taxes and undermine local businesses who pay their fair share of UK tax.

That's why they've started a petition on Change.org calling for Amazon to pay its tax. Click above to join them.

All Amazon UK book sales are routed through their Luxembourg subsidiary. So when the British public buy goods from Amazon, they are in fact paying a Luxembourg company. This means Amazon can avoid paying British corporation tax on the profits it makes.

Signed petition for my UK buddies. Like many multi-national companies, Amazon doesn't play fair within the US or world-wide. Recently, the state of Texas forced Amazon to start charging state sales tax on transactions. For a while Amazon threatened to pull all of their warehouses in our state, but then, backed down. I hope this petition helps.

 

[NaokoSmith]

Signed petition for my UK buddies. Like many multi-national companies, Amazon doesn't play fair within the US or world-wide. Recently, the state of Texas forced Amazon to start charging state sales tax on transactions. For a while Amazon threatened to pull all of their warehouses in our state, but then, backed down. I hope this petition helps.

Thanks, Neko!

 

[andy_charles]

Goind to look and sign now - nice thread

 

[NaokoSmith]

Goind to look and sign now - nice thread

Love you too, handsome!

 

[andy_charles]

Love you too, handsome!

You're welcome

 

[steve44uk]

I think yhey'be just delivered this petition to Downing St. Is it wrong that I signed it twice using both home and work emails...?

As a retailer, I thoroughly endorse Hive.co.uk - we make between £20-30 a month commission from people who've nominated us as their favourite independent bookshop. Not bad for doing nothing but being brilliant!

I'd also draw your attention to the upcoming Books Are My Bag campaign, a PR initiative co-ordinated by the Saatchi ad agency to promote indies. It launches in September, and will feature celebrity endorsements of stylish BAMG cloth bags. Each participating bookshop gets 75 free bags to give to customers to kickstart the "street" element of the campaign, but they also have the option to buy more bags (at a unit price most Indies can't command because they don't have the bulk-buying power) to sell to customers. You can even have the bags overprinted with your shop's name.

I've just ordered 1000.

Watch out for the campaign in September, and please support your local independent booksellers. We're good people. We make great lovers too... Book-lovers, I mean, of course...