A company offering online services has its headquarters in Country A but most of the users of these services are actually in Country B.
The profits of this company are created through user activity in Country B, but are taxed in Country A because that is where the company’s headquarters are.
Sometimes, companies will install their headquarters in Country A on purpose if the tax rate is lower in that country - even if they don’t have many users there.
Amazon, and most other e-commerce companies, didn’t collect state sales taxes when they launched in the 1990s, using laws dating back as long as 50 years made for catalog retailers.
That allowed them to keep prices low and gain market share as online sales were just beginning. However, Amazon and other big e-commerce companies now routinely collect state sales taxes.
Pedophile guide On November 10, 2010, a controversy arose over the sale by Amazon of an e-book by Phillip R. Greaves entitled The Pedophile's Guide to Love and Pleasure: a Child-lover's Code of Conduct.[82]
Readers threatened to boycott Amazon over its selling of the book, which was described by critics as a "pedophile guide". Amazon initially defended the sale of the book, saying that the site "believes it is censorship not to sell certain books simply because we or others believe their message is objectionable"[83] and that the site "supported the right of every individual to make their own purchasing decisions". However, the site later removed the book.[84] The San Francisco Chronicle wrote that Amazon "defended the book, then removed it, then reinstated it, and then removed it again".[83]
Greaves was arrested on December 20, 2010 at his Pueblo, Colorado home on a felony warrant issued by the Polk County Sheriff's Office in Lakeland, Florida. Detectives from the county's Internet Crimes Division ordered a signed hard copy version of Greaves' book and had it shipped to the agency's jurisdiction, where it violated state obscenity laws. According to Sheriff Grady Judd, upon receipt of the book, Greaves violated local laws prohibiting the distribution of "obscene material depicting minors engaged in harmful conduct," a third degree felony.[87] Greaves pleaded no contest to the charges and was later released under probation with his previous jail time counting as time served.[88] 0044名刺は切らしておりまして2018/04/28(土) 10:11:54.32ID:T9zE6Yzf>>1 アマゾンの倉庫内の労働環境は過酷(46 °Cのところも)
Warehouse conditions In September 2011, Allentown, Pennsylvania's Morning Call interviewed 20 past and present employees at Amazon's Breinigsville warehouse, all but one of whom criticized the company's warehouse conditions and employment practice. Specific investigatory concerns were: heat so extreme it required the regular posting of ambulances to take away workers who passed out,[95] strenuous workloads in that heat, and first-person reports of summary terminations for health conditions such as breast cancer.[96] The Morning Call also published, verbatim, Amazon.com's direct response to a query by OSHA,[97] where amazon.com detailed its response when heat conditions reach as high as 114 °F (46 °C), including water and ice treatment, electrolyte drinks, nutrition advice, and extended breaks in air conditioned rooms.[98] Five days after the Morning Call article was published, Amazon stated that it had spent $2.4 million "urgently installing" air conditioning at four warehouses including the Breinigsville facility.[99] However, the original investigator states that when he checked back with current employees for his September 23 follow-up story, "they told him nothing had changed since his original story ran."[100] 0045名刺は切らしておりまして2018/04/28(土) 10:12:15.45ID:T9zE6Yzf>>1 劣悪な環境の倉庫に食料品を格納していたアマゾン
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon.com_controversies#Removal_of_competitors'_products "Amazon ships a lot of electronics and food now. It's not good to have that stuff in extreme temperatures," said Sucharita Mulpuru, an analyst with Forrester Research. "I would like to think there was an element of humanity to the decision but there's nothing in Amazon's history or in Jeff Bezos' public persona that would lead me to think that was the driver of the decision. … Rarely has Amazon made any business decisions that didn't affect the bottom line."[103]
Amazon UK On 2 August 2013 the Daily Mail ran an expose outing Amazon UK for employee GPS 'tagging' and subjecting them to harsh working conditions, describing employees as 'human robots', the newspaper said that Amazon employed 'controversial' zero-hour contracts as a tool to reprimand staff.[105] A Channel 4 documentary broadcast on the 1st August 2013 employed secret cameras within Amazon UK's Rugeley warehouse documenting worker abuses and made similar claim to the Daily Mail calling the working practices 'horrendous and exhausting'.[106] 0047名刺は切らしておりまして2018/04/28(土) 10:12:49.24ID:T9zE6Yzf>>1
独占的地位を全力で活用して投資を回収するAmazon
BookSurge In March 2008, sales representatives of Amazon's BookSurge division started contacting publishers of print on demand titles to inform them that for Amazon to continue selling their POD-produced books, they were required to sign agreements with Amazon's own BookSurge POD company. Publishers were told that eventually, the only POD titles that Amazon would be selling would be those printed by their own company, BookSurge. Some publishers felt that this ultimatum amounted to monopoly abuse, and questioned the ethics of the move and its legality under anti-trust law.[19] 0048名刺は切らしておりまして2018/04/28(土) 10:27:39.03ID:T9zE6Yzfhttps://www.amazon.co.jp/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=201929730 "Amazonで購入していない商品のレビューは、1週間に5件まで投稿可能です。1週間の期間は、日本時間で毎週日曜日午前9時から翌週日曜日の8時59分までです。Amazon Vine先取りプログラムやデジタル版を含む本、ミュージック、ビデオについては適用外です。"