AMAZON AUDIT

£4.5m

Corporation tax charged to Amazon last year, half what it paid a year earlier

£2.9bn

Sales registered at its eight UK companies

£20.8m

Tax paid across Amazon eight companies

239m

Square feet of Amazon offices and warehouses, more three times the size of Gibraltar

5bn

Parcels sent to Amazon prime customers last year, one every six seconds

13

Warehouses across the UK £8.7bn Amazon UK sales according to 2007 US accounts

£14m

Paid by Amazon a year in business rates on its wa rehouses

£108bn

Wealth of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, right

£570m

Paid by Marks & Spencer in business rates – 12 times more than Amazon

100m

Paying customers of the Amazon Prime service

27,000

Amazon employees in UK

£674m

Share awards UK staff and bosses are currently entitled to

£600m

Public sector contract handed to Amazon this week