Apparently it lost 1.16 billion euros

Amazon's main European retail business reported 1.16 billion euros ($1.26 billion) of losses in 2021.

To pay for those who have to go in

Working from home should be taxed to help support workers whose jobs are under threat, a report has suggested. Deutsche Bank Research suggests a tax of five percent of  a worker's salary if workers choose to work from home when they are not forced to by the current pandemic.

What a surprise

The fruity cargo cult Apple is continuing to sting the British Inland Revenue.

Constitutional court surrenders

The French courts have surrendered to plans by its government to trawl social media to detect tax avoidance.

Calls on the US government for protection

After refusing to pay tax in Europe for ages, Big Tech is so upset by the French demanding a piddling three percent on profits that it is asking for the US government to help.

Daylight robbery

Rockstar North, the Edinburgh-based developer of Grand Theft Auto, has paid no corporation tax over the past decade, despite making billions in revenue for its parent company Take-Two Interactive.

Nasty roast beef eating Americans we strike you roughly with a baguette

France’s lower house of parliament approved Thursday a small, pioneering tax on internet giants like Google, Amazon and Facebook -- and the French government hopes other countries will follow suit.

Looks like they will finally pay a bit of tax – eventually

The group of 20 finance ministers - the G20 - agreed to compile common rules to close loopholes used by global tech giants such as Facebook to reduce their corporate taxes.

Must be cheaper not to pay

Search engine Google is paying the EU more in fines than it does in tax.

Although it is a question of who surrendered to whom

US technology giant Apple said it had reached a deal with France to pay an undeclared amount of back-dated tax however no one seems to be saying how much it paid.