European Commission ends state aid case against Amazon with no tax payout

Amazon won't need to pay the European Union €250 million ($263 million) in back taxes. On Wednesday, the bloc's executive branch said it was closing three separate state aid investigations, including one involving Amazon. The decision ends one of the company's longest-running legal sagas. In 2017, the European Commission found that, from 2006 to 2014, Amazon had used an operating company in Luxembourg to pay substantially less tax to the European Union. The shell company had no offices or staf...