On Sun, 03 Jan 2016 18:40:40 +0000, Chris French wrote:

I'm not unsympathetic to the argument that Amazon (and other big
companies that do the same sort of thing, Boots was one IIRC) should pay
more tax to the UK (or other countries) they are operating in.

However, how should a company decide how much tax to pay, if it then
doesn't operate to minimise it's tax liability. What about the
shareholders? as presumably the company will be less profitable.

And that's the whole point.

Amazon has NEVER made a profit, anywhere in the world, until into 2015.

And, everywhere in the world, Corporation Tax is a tax on... profit.