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At a meeting in New York, the Amazon founder said it was up to governments to set taxation frameworks.

"When they’re p*ssing in bottles rather than be fired for toilet breaks this sounds more like a taunt," James Felton said.

“Imagine if we could prohibit fires in the Amazon – it could be a carbon sink. But we are doing the opposite – we are accelerating climate change," a researcher has said.

French finance minister Bruno Le Maire called it “the most important international tax agreement in a century”.

"From a Friday to a Friday our target was to generally destroy 130,000 items a week," including laptops, drones and top of the range headphones.

It comes as finance ministers from the G7, including the UK, have agreed on making big corporations pay more tax, but Amazon may escape the measures.

Ahead of local elections, voters want Covid profiteers to fund frontline workers and public services.

As smaller, hard-working high street stores struggle, Amazon has enjoyed record sales over the pandemic.

Green belt was sacrificed ‘for 2,500 jobs’ – but 90% of them have not materialised so far.