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On the recordMarch 24, 2021
How is it possible that Amazon was able to rake in profits like that and pay only a four--I think it is about a 4.3-percent tax rate, when the corporate income tax rate was 21 percent?
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Elizabeth Warren
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Warren questions Amazon's low tax rate despite high profits.

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