Synopsis
Amazon, like other massive multinationals, famously avoid taxes through legal loopholes and centralised offices in tax havens. The UK Director of Amazon disagrees.
- Programme: Business Boomers
- Episode: 03: Amazon's Retail Revolution
- Channel: BBC World News
- Broadcast year: 2014
- Business & Management | Personal and Business Finance
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