Enough is enough In 2011 Amazon paid an effective tax rate of 0.5 per cent on its UK earnings of GBP3.35 billion. In 201314 Apple Australia paid around 80 million in income tax on revenue of over 6 billion. Multinational corporations have avoided trillions of dollars of tax over the past 25 years. Tax avoidance is legal but its massive abuse by multinationals has had a devastating effect on governments around the world and has placed an unbearable burden on individual taxpayers and on honest lo