{"id":94578,"date":"2018-08-07T08:09:18","date_gmt":"2018-08-07T08:09:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=41fa217f253cbca9c4e74a7290ab7c38"},"modified":"2018-08-07T08:09:18","modified_gmt":"2018-08-07T08:09:18","slug":"online-platform-giant-pays-only-1-7m-corporation-tax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=94578","title":{"rendered":"Online platform giant pays only \u00a31.7m corporation tax"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field-items\">\n<div class=\"field-item even\" property=\"content:encoded\">\n<p>Amazon reported turnover of nearly \u00a32bn in its accounts for the year to 31 December 2017. This compares with \u00a31.5bn in the previous year. The figures, which are publicly available from Companies House, show pre-tax profits were \u00a372.4m with the multinational paying \u00a31.7m UK corporation tax.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>This inspired MP Margaret Hodge to tweet: \u2018#Amazon are acting outrageously by not paying their fair share of tax on profits earned in the UK. They use public services but fail to pay &#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p>Amazon reported turnover of nearly &pound;2bn in its accounts for the year to 31 December 2017. This compares with &pound;1.5bn in the previous year. The figures, which are publicly available from Companies House, show pre-tax profits were &pound;72.4m with the multinational paying &pound;1.7m UK corporation tax.<\/p>\n<p>This inspired MP Margaret Hodge to tweet: &lsquo;#Amazon are acting outrageously by not paying their fair share of tax on profits earned in the UK. They use public services but fail to pay &#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94578"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=94578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94578\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=94578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=94578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=94578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}