The company
"Amazon must be in the field"
of tax reform
"and France will fight for it to be there",
claimed Bruno Le Maire the day after the G7 agreement.
This text plans to tax more
"the most profitable multinationals",
that is to say those with a margin greater than 10%.
"At least 20%"
of this “surplus profit” - which exceeds this 10% - would be distributed in favor of the countries where the turnover is really achieved.
Problem, among Gafa, Amazon, the most emblematic company targeted by this tax reform, would escape this new tax.
The Seattle giant only generated a 6% margin on all of its activities last year.
Online trading is a very low margin business.
Amazon is even losing money in some international markets.
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In 2020, Amazon's margins in international e-commerce were only 0.7%.
In 2019, Amazon even made losses internationally.
The modest profitability of this activity
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