turnover exceeded 10 billion euros in France in 2022

2023-09-26 16:58:09

The American giant Amazon achieved 10.5 billion euros in turnover in France in 2022, growing by more than 16%, with a “total tax contribution of 1.7 billion euros”, he said. -he announced on Tuesday, without revealing the exact amount of corporate tax. “The tax contribution of companies goes well beyond corporate tax,” Amazon France general manager Frédéric Duval defended to the press on Tuesday.

580 million euros in direct debits

The group has communicated every year since 2018 on the “compulsory deductions corresponding” to its activities in France. For 2022, it claims 580 million euros in direct deductions, thus accounting for corporate tax, employer contributions, and local taxes, compared to 470 million a year earlier. Frédéric Duval declared that 1.7 billion euros in compulsory deductions linked to Amazon’s activities in France had been paid, compared to one billion in 2021, a figure taking into account, for example, the taxes of third-party sellers or sub-contractors. contractors, as well as social charges and VAT.

Concerning the turnover achieved in France, of 10.5 billion euros compared to 9 billion a year earlier, it should not be confused with the volume of business (on which the company has not communicated) which corresponds to all sales made in France by the group. The turnover corresponds to sales made by the group itself, by the commissions it takes on sales made by third parties on its online marketplace and by its cloud activity (Amazon Web Services). “More than 16,000 French VSEs and SMEs” (very small, small and medium-sized enterprises) sell on its marketplace as third-party sellers, Amazon calculated on Tuesday.

Frédéric Duval also indicated that the group currently employed more than 20,000 people nationally and that it had invested more than 20 billion euros in its activities in France since 2010.

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