FURIOUS MPs last night urged Brits to BOYCOTT Amazon after its UK delivery business paid just £7.4 million in tax - despite sales of £1.4 BILLION.

Politicians and campaigners rounded on the US giant for coughing up “peanuts” to the Taxman as it rakes in a fortune from shoppers.

6 MPs have slammed Amazon after it emerged its UK delivery business paid just £7.4 million in tax Credit: PA:Press Association 6 The US online giant - which is owned by Jeff Bezos - last year paid less than half the UK tax paid in 2015 Credit: Getty Images - Getty

Accounts filed by Amazon UK Services reveal it paid £7.4 million of corporation tax in 2016 – less than HALF the amount paid in 2015.

Turnover at the business – which handles the packing and delivery of parcels and customer service – soared above £1 billion for the first time to nearly £1.5 billion.

Profits fell to £24.5 million on higher costs.

No figures for the core Amazon Retail business are available and the US giant last night refused to how much tax this arm paid in 2016.

Labour’s Margaret Hodge – a former cross-party Commons Committee chair – demanded Brits respond by taking their hard-earned money elsewhere.

She stormed: “It remains outrageous that Amazon are so blasé that they can ignore all the anger that their failure to pay fair tax in this country.

6 Labour’s Margaret Hodge demanded Brits respond by boycotting the company Credit: Rex Features “It is a scandal they are deliberately manipulating the way they do their business for no other purpose than to avoid tax.”

She added: “I hope people take a leaf out of my book and stop using Amazon.

“I don’t use them at all and I would urge Sun readers to do the same and not use them.

"If we stop using Amazon then they may understand how angry their customers are.”

A senior Government source added: “Big multinationals must pay all taxes due and we won’t settle for less.”

Tory campaigner Charlie Elphicke said: “It’s peanuts."People will say it’s high time Amazon paid their fair share.” 6 For years, Amazon has been accused of dodging tax by politicians outraged by its complex company structures Credit: Alamy

Amazon has been accused of dodging tax for years by furious politicians outraged by its complex company structures.

The web giant finally started booking sales made to UK customers through a UK branch – rather than diverting them through the tax haven of Luxembourg – two years ago. But the figures are aggregated into a European-wide balance sheet.

And critics claim the move was merely a response to ex-Chancellor George Osborne’s decision to introduce a diverted profits tax.

This threatened a 25 per cent tax on the profits of companies found to have artificially move profits outside the UK.US documents reveal Amazon’s total revenue in the UK topped £7 billion in 2016. But Amazon Services - which makes its money by charging Amazon’s Retail business for delivering product – accounted for just £1.4 billion of this. 6 Tory campaigner Charlie Elphicke claimed the company only pays 'peanuts' in UK tax Credit: PA:Press Association

Last October Theresa May used her first Tory conference speech as Prime Minister to make a thinly veiled attack on tax dodging giants.

She vowed to confront “international companies that treat tax laws as an optional extra”.

Amazon has been praised recently for its investment in the UK despite the uncertainty surrounding Brexit.

UK boss Doug Gurr last month announced plans to create 5,000 new jobs in the UK with a goal of having 24,000 permanent employees across the country.

Digital Minister Matt Hancock hailed it as “great news”. 6 Last year Theresa May used her first Tory conference speech as PM to vow to confront tax dodging giants Credit: Splash News

In a statement last night, Amazon said: “We pay all our taxes required in the UK and every country where we operate.

“Corporation tax is based on profits, not revenues and our profits have remained low given retail is a highly-competitive, low margin business and our continued heavy investment.”

A spokesman added: “We’ve invested over £6.4 billion in the UK since 2010 including opening a new head office in London and development centres in Cambridge and London this year and creating 5,000 permanent jobs across the country.”