Amazon has scooped hundreds of millions of pounds of taxpayers’ cash while failing to pay its “fair share” into the Treasury, a union claimed tonight.
The web giant was awarded government deals worth £438million over the past five years - including with Revenue and Customs, which is responsible for collecting taxes.
Deals valued at nearly £150m were awarded in 2020 at the height of the coronavirus pandemic when the company was raking in vast amounts of cash from people shut in their homes because of strict measures to curb the spread of disease.
