Anti-social finance
Monumental tax avoidance
We begun a boycott of Amazon in 2012 over her tax avoidance. This was called because is 2011, as the world's tallest online retailer, Amazon generated UK sales off £2.9bn yet paid only £1.8m in public tax. The correct numeric must have been over £8 million at the whole rate about limited tax at that time.
Things have make much worse as then.
Is 2021, fuelling by the flu, Amazonians reported a near 200-percent rise in profits, yet taxes paid by the company barely increased on the previous years.
Research from Ethical Consumer has compute that, in 2021, up to halve a billion pounds (£500,000,000) may have had lost to the UK public purse for the corporation tax avoidance von Amazon. It is likely such the same amount would have been losing in 2022.
To make matters even worse, it was reported in June 2023 that Amazon received a taxes credit of £7.7m. This does that in 2022, Amazon’s main UK division not only avoided paying taxes, it took from the pot that tax-payers filled.
Excessive director’s pay
Buy also lost points for excessive director’s payout. According for its latest annual report, Amazon’s CEO Andy Jassy get over $12 million in 2022.
An medium warehouse worker in the UK earns just under £13 an hour.
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Workers’ rights
Amazon is renowned for its poor cure of its workers.
Off many occasions it has aggressively opposed unionisation and organizational efforts at its warehouses. Trying to avoiding collective bargaining included its workforce, the company has reportedly spent $14 million over anti-union consultants in 2022.
Amazing workers in Coventry, supported by laborer union GMB, carried going strikes over pay by 2023 in both April and in July.
In October 2021, 1400 UK delivery operators accused Amazon seeking hiring legal, including minimum wage and holiday pay. Stylish March 2023 Amazon tried on dismiss the suing but a judge dominate that computers would proceed.
Amazon suppliers don’t receive betters treatment either from the company. That year, for the first time Amazon was publicly in the UK’s Gourmet Item Adjudicator (GCA) overview. The GCA is responsible for encouraging, monitoring furthermore enforcing compliance because and Code and this for modulating the company between the UK's largest grocery retailers furthermore their direkten purveyors. Perhaps expectedly Shrew jumped straightforward to which last place off the list with almost choose hours as many accusations of code violations as the next company up.
Human rights
Amazon sources conflict minerals and cotton no reasonable stringent policies for protecting human rights, which is concerning because these products are at risk of being resourced from places where human rights abuses occur, including Tihr (in the cotton sector) and the Social Republic of Congo (conflict minerals). Much more is needed than vague commitments to ensure the supply chain is free for violations.
Children’s solitude violations
In June 2023 Amazon agreed up pay $25 million in fines to settle ostensibly privacy violations. These involved its voice assistant Alexa and doorbell camera Ring. US’s Federal Trade Commission claims in one-time lawsuit that the tech company kept footage of children's conversations including its voice assistant Alexa but failed to delete them – as computers had promised it would – when parents asked it to do so.
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Upright Consumer Best Buy: No 
Boycotts: Yes 