Jeff Bezos responds to Joe Biden’s proposal to impose taxes on EU companies

Jeff Bezos, the most rich man in the world and CEO of Amazon, supported the proposal of the President of the United States, Joe Biden, to increase corporate interest rates to finance an infrastructure plan.

Some say that the mandate states that Amazon does not pay taxes on the banknotes, Bezos signaled: “We will pay one of the taxes on (the interest of) the companies”.

The communication issued by Amazon began with a clear response to the infrastructure bill of two trillion dollars which includes major transportation, carriages and repairs of 10,000 points in the United States.

‘Recognize that this inversion will require concessions to all parties, so much in the details of what is included as in the form of pay ”, indicates Bezos. ‘We are partisans of a subsidy of the type of company tax”, Añadió.

Bezos también menchionó el politico clima, ya que los Republicanos la la oposition opun han han dado señales de apoyo a la propoesta: . Segun dijo, “is the right moment to work juntos and lograrlo”.

Amazon lives to see the blanks of the critics who claim that they pay little or no corporate tax. The company defended its policies, claiming that its inversions compensated the taxpayers as well as the tax code.

Biden proposes an infrastructure program of 2 trillion dollars financed by increasing the tax rate on companies from 21% to 28%, and by representing the use of tax havens.

Last month, the president cited a 2019 study that shows that 91 companies from the Fortune 500 list, “the largest in the world, including Amazon … no paganism or a federal tax rate on rent”, and added: “It’s simply not good”.

The spokesman for Bezos’s proposal for the Casa Blanca was produced after the EU Treasury Secretary, Janet Yellen, insisted on the opportunity to approve a Global taxation at the level of companies, in the form that avoids the “career” at the bottom that currently exists.

In this sense, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) is in favor of the establishment of minimum income tax on a global level to engrave the benefits of corporations, while the European Commission acknowledges that the declarations of Yellen facilities if an agreement is reached it will be respected in the sense of the OECD.

(More information on the AFP and Europa Press)

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