Anyone have any pointers?
In general, Corporate Tax Income is roughly 1-2% of Gross Domestic Product.
Also, big business in the USA lobbies ~3bln per year - it's money going from business to the government, albeit I'd class it more as corruption than taxes.
It's anyway much less than what you pay in %. As it's normal when you have a central corruptible government: whoever holds the more power will get the better treatment. If Amazon leaves the USA, tons of workers are going to become unemployed. If you leave the USA, it doesn't change much (especially because you'll keep on paying taxes until you renounce your citizenship).
You’d think there would be a simple site where you can look up a company ticker symbol and see a straight taxes-paid number and how much is off-shored to mitigate tax burden.
If you hate large companies not paying their share, encourage government to do their fucking job and legislate in order to prevent companies from cheating the fed out of billions. Ironically, (as much as I hate the guy) Trump is the only president in recent history who's made clever moves to target Amazon. Unfortunately, companies lobby to have their tax cheating ignored by congress and government at large.
This is glaringly obvious, when Biden criticizes trump and rich americans for "cheating" on taxes where his returns clearly show he uses similar - sometimes identical means of dodging taxes.