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To: Lord Sugar

BABB - Boycott Amazon Buy British

This campaign has ended.

Sign this petition and join our campaign to boycott Amazon and promote British tax paying businesses.

The way Amazon operates sucks the tax on British consumer spending out of the country and creates an unfair playing field for British tax paying businesses.

We will ask Lord Sugar, as a champion of British business, to get friends and colleagues behind a country wide campaign to buy from British tax paying companies instead of Amazon. We feel going to a politician will be futile as they are too enamoured with firms like Amazon and the promise of job creation so want to get the public to vote with their wallets.

Why is this important?

PLEASE SIGN THE BABB PETITION - Boycott Amazon and Buy British!

Why?

1. Amazon are operating at at huge advantage over British tax paying companies. Book shops to electrical stores cannot compete with a non tax paying company.
2. Every £ spent by British consumers with Amazon is leaving the country with no tax benefit for the UK.

The argument that to lose Amazon would mean losing jobs and therefore income tax is not true. The UK consumer spend with Amazon will still exist but can go to British tax paying companies, keeping our tax in this country and helping create jobs within these companies.

I have run businesses for over 20 years and in that time have had numerous dealings with HMRC. Often this has been to try and delay a payment to them in order help my cashflow as running a small business can at times be very difficult. The overriding argument for me to pay on time was always the same, it would give me an unfair advantage over other businesses if they were lenient with my tax debts. Although I may not have liked this at the time it is true, so how is it that firms like Amazon can sell to UK consumers whilst paying no tax on the profit from these sales?

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/jun/24/amazons-uk-business-paid-119m-tax-last-year

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2015-06-27 16:42:56 +0100

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