The big American tech firms known as the “Silicon Six” have been accused of paying almost $278bn £211bn less corporate income tax in the past decade compared with the statutory rate for US companies making the same profits. Amazon, Meta, Alphabet, Netflix, Apple and Microsoft generated $11tn of revenue and $2.5tn of profits over the past 10 years. Yet they paid an average 18.8% in combined national and federal corporation taxes, compared with an average 29.7% in the US, according to the Fair...
