{"id":38783,"date":"2025-04-15T00:39:04","date_gmt":"2025-04-15T00:39:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/15\/silicon-six-accused-of-avoiding-almost-278bn-in-us-corporation-taxes-over-10-years\/"},"modified":"2025-04-15T00:39:04","modified_gmt":"2025-04-15T00:39:04","slug":"silicon-six-accused-of-avoiding-almost-278bn-in-us-corporation-taxes-over-10-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/15\/silicon-six-accused-of-avoiding-almost-278bn-in-us-corporation-taxes-over-10-years\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Silicon Six\u2019 accused of avoiding almost $278bn in US corporation taxes over 10 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Analysis finds Amazon, Meta, Alphabet, Netflix, Apple and Microsoft averaged 18.8%, compared with 29.7% US average<\/p>\n<p>The big American tech firms known as the \u201cSilicon Six\u201d have been accused of paying almost $278bn (\u00a3211bn) less corporate income tax in the past decade compared with the statutory rate for US companies making the same profits.<\/p>\n<p>Amazon, Meta, Alphabet, Netflix, Apple and Microsoft generated $11tn of revenue and $2.5tn of profits over the past 10 years.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/apr\/15\/silicon-six-accused-of-avoiding-almost-278bn-in-us-corporation-taxes-over-10-years\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Analysis finds Amazon, Meta, Alphabet, Netflix, Apple and Microsoft averaged 18.8%, compared with 29.7% US average The big American tech firms known as the \u201cSilicon Six\u201d have been accused of paying almost $278bn (\u00a3211bn) less corporate income tax in the past decade compared with the statutory rate for US companies making the same profits. Amazon, &#8230; <a title=\"\u2018Silicon Six\u2019 accused of avoiding almost $278bn in US corporation taxes over 10 years\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/15\/silicon-six-accused-of-avoiding-almost-278bn-in-us-corporation-taxes-over-10-years\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about \u2018Silicon Six\u2019 accused of avoiding almost $278bn in US corporation taxes over 10 years\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38783\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}