> “We are investing heavily in creating jobs and infrastructure across Europe – more than 100 billion euros since 2010”, an Amazon representative said. “Corporation tax is based on profits, not revenues, and last year Amazon EU Sarl made a loss as we opened more than 50 new sites across Europe and created over 65,000 well-paid jobs, taking our total European permanent workforce to over 200,000”, the spokesperson added.

People and news sites who write articles on corporate taxes like this never seem to get that taxes are based on profits and not revenue. Sometimes I wonder if it's willfully done to get a reaction out of their readers.

Because you don't pay corporate taxes on sales.