An employee works at Amazon's Prime Now fulfillment centre in Singapore July 27, 2017. REUTERS/Edgar Su
BRUSSELS: The European Union ordered the world's largest online retailer Amazon on Oct 4 to pay back about €250mil (RM1.24bil) in taxes to Luxembourg, saying it was given an unfair tax advantage from 2003.
Joining other US tech giants in the sights of EU antitrust chief Margrethe Vestager, Amazon said it was considering an appeal over the payment, though it was less than some close to the case had expected and a small fraction of the €13bil (RM64.64bil) that Apple Inc was ordered to pay to Ireland last year.
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