you missed another part to this puzzle. if you or me skirts out on taxes, we go to jail
but if you are a ceo for a company like amazon and colludes an entire enterprise to snake out on BILLIONS, its ok we just need to talk things out
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On Nov. 9, 2012, the IRS informed Amazon it owed $234 million in additional taxes to the government for 2005 and 2006
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In the early 2000s, Amazon embarked on a years-long mission to save billions by setting up operations in Luxembourg to radically reshape its tax structure. Using a complex patchwork of subsidiaries, the online shopping behemoth managed to shift vast quantities of its profit through a sophisticated mechanism that took external consultants and in-house tax specialists — who reported directly to Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos — years to dream up.
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