The UK’s tax authority is assigning dedicated “customer compliance managers” to more than 200 billionaires as part of a crackdown meant to raise £500m for the public purse.
HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) said it had for the first time compiled a list of billionaires who are required to pay tax in the UK, regardless of whether they formally live in the country, to tackle a “wealthy tax gap” caused by those who do not pay what they ought.
The problem with Amazon is one their anticompetitive practices is that you must sell on their platform cheapest to allow to sell on it. Even before you taken into account their own global postal services.
These guys want voting with your wallet as their wallet is a lot bigger. If any competition looks like real competition, the monopolies buy them.
Consumer choice isn’t going to solve this.