ESSENTIAL NATIONAL FINDINGS 2015



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In 2015, Amazon sold $55.6 billion worth of retail goods nationwide, all while avoiding $704 million in sales taxes. The cost of lost sales taxes falls equally on state and local governments.





These sales are the equivalent of 39,000 retail storefronts or 133 million square feet of commercial space, which might have paid $528 million in property taxes.





A total of more than $1.2 billion in revenue is lost to state and local governments.





Amazon also operated 75 million square feet of distribution space, employing roughly 111,000 workers.

