alt Hacker NewsBut maybe not great at finance?
Why are they paying taxes if they have a huge order backlog. Expand your production capability. Amazon famously had no profits on paper for many years because of their relentless expansion.
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baobabKoodaa • today at 2:43 PM
Maybe they're not trying to be great at the tax avoidance game.
ameliaquining • today at 3:44 PM
The post is about how they don't have the capital to safely expand production capacity, which is why they're raising more.
> Why are they paying taxes
"Paying our taxes" in this kind of context is nearly always shorthand for "filling out our tax returns". That part usually takes a substantial hunk of time. The actual payment process is typically writing a check or entering credit card info, which just takes a few seconds.