Amazon pays taxes, not sure how anybody still believes this piece of misinformation. You do realize it is Congress who creates the tax rules to begin with, so if anyone is at fault for the tax 'loop holes' these companies leverage, it's corrupt legislators.

"In 2017, Amazon paid close to $1 billion in income tax. In 2018, the amount jumped to $1.18 billion, accounting for local, state, and international taxes."

https://www.forbes.com/sites/stephaniedenning/2019/02/22/why...

The market cap of a company has nothing to do with how much tax they pay. Can we please quit spreading misinformation about Amazon?

Survive through years of losing money, then use the saved tax credits over the course of the first few profitable years.

One of the reasons (among many) is the expense treatment of stock based compensation was changed I believe as part of Sarbanes-Oxley. Companies are now required to expense stock given as compensation since it will have a dilutive effect on existing shareholders. Amazon issue billions of dollars in stock each year to its employees. Amazon also operates high cashflow but low margin businesses which make its net income very small. The company has emphasized free cash flow to investors for at least 20 years.

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/AMZN/amazon/stock-...

Aquire $793 billion and then do nothing with it. You will not be taxed at all.

There are a lot of companies which completely avoid paying any taxes through multiple sources of side stepping taxes. Immoral but not illegal.