Amazon must pay UK taxes, Bezos told

LONDON. Prime Minister Boris Johnson said he told Jeff Bezos that Amazon.com Inc. must pay its fair share of taxes in the UK.

“When you sell many many billions worth of goods in the UK then you’ve got to expect to be taxed fairly in the UK,” Johnson told ITN yesterday, following his meeting with Bezos late Monday in New York.

Amazon has been the target of efforts by countries seeking an overhaul of the international corporate tax system. In July, countries at talks hosted by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development pushed for a more balanced international corporate tax system, setting a minimum corporate tax rate and establishing a new regime for sharing the taxes imposed on the profits of multinational firms.