Amazon’s key UK business paid just £3.8m more corporation tax last year than in 2019, even as sales increased by £1.89bn.
Mick Rix, GMB National Officer, said:
“Thousands of businesses across the UK have folded during the pandemic.
“Yet despite making billions from lockdown shopping, and trousering millions in Government contracts and subsidies, Amazon has paid a frankly insulting amount of tax back into Treasury coffers.
“At the same time Amazon workers suffer unsafe, dehumanising work practices; breaking bones, falling unconscious and being taken away in ambulances.
“Ministers must get a grip of this runaway company and make sure pandemic profiteers pay more.”
