UPDATE (8th June 2026): Amazon UK accounts have been released and show ‘systematic tax avoidance’. Read more here.
You may have seen last week that Amazon put out a statement on how much tax it pays in the UK, announcing that it paid more than £1.3 billion in tax in the UK in 2025.
At face value it looks as though Amazon pays a large amount of tax, and the statement also highlights Amazon’s role as an employer and investor in the UK economy.
So why are JustMoney Movement and our allies campaigning on Amazon’s poor tax record and calling them out for bad business practices?
Our newly launched Challenge Amazon campaign draws attention to Amazon’s failure to pay its taxes fairly and transparently.
Sadly, the truth is more complex, and less rosy, than the picture Amazon wants to paint.
Amazon refuses to say what their total profits are in the UK and what corporation tax they pay on that. Campaigners and investors have been calling for this information for years now.
Paul Monaghan, Chief Executive of Fair Tax Foundation, commented:
Amazon are once again looking to confuse and conceal, with their Total Tax Contribution calculation – which includes taxes paid by their customers, such as VAT! But the critical numbers they still refuse to disclose are what their total profits are in the UK and the corporation tax they pay on this… Amazon’s overall global tax bill plummeted in 2025, despite a leap in revenues and profits, thanks to ridiculously generous tax breaks introduced by Donald Trump.”
Monaghan also pointed out that much of Amazon’s UK income continues to be moved to a subsidiary in Luxembourg, which would enable them to pay very little corporation tax.
Amazon is an enormous global company and its unfair tax practices harm people and planet. They are also well documented for their poor treatment of workers and environmental harms.
The fact that they feel the need to publish long statements, praising themselves for paying some of their taxes, is down to campaigns like ours and our allies like Fair Tax Foundation and Ethical Consumer.
Let’s keep going! You can take the pledge to Break the Amazon Habit here.