Lockdown helped company make £19.4bn but it has not stated how much tax it paid in the UK last year
Amazon’s UK sales soared by 51% last year to a record $26.5bn (£19.4bn) as people trapped at home due to the coronavirus pandemic lockdowns turned to the internet retailing giant to buy items unavailable in closed high street stores and to keep them entertained.
While Amazon celebrated the rise in revenue collected from UK customers, the company did not state how much tax it paid in the UK last year. The company, which has made its founder and outgoing chief executive Jeff Bezos a $200bn fortune, paid just £293m in tax in 2019 despite the company collecting UK sales of $17.5bn that year.
