"We support a corporate tax hike,"
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos assured Tuesday in a statement released by his group on Twitter, days after Joe Biden complained that Amazon was not paying income taxes.
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The US president, who has announced an investment plan to modernize infrastructure and wants to increase corporate taxes to finance it, lamented on Wednesday the
“various legal tricks”
used by the world's largest companies to avoid taxes, by specifically citing the e-commerce giant.