They are not really giving the money to charity, they are just affiliate links, so the charity make a bit of money from your purchase.

Pretty much like all the links on this site are affiliate links, with the site making £1000's per day. I wonder how much HUKD give to charity?

How about Amazon donate some money to the taxman?

Rather than donate 5% to charity , pay your workers on minimum wage and zero hours contracts the money .....

​and tax dodging Amazon will do the same... if they are so generous, how about paying their taxes?

Wish I known before, spent lots with Amazon lately. Shall lessen my guilt. :wink:
I shall bookmark these now.

I knew the US site did something like this, I am glad to find a way to do it in the UK, hoping there are other charities out there this can be applied to as well, if anyone knows of more?

Great that you can give some money to charity with amazon orders, just a pity you have to click through another site everytime, as like cashback it makes it very easy to forget so the charities don't get as much as they otherwise might, shame there isn't a option to just have it do it by default....

But heated for supporting charities.

They are not really giving the money to charity, they are just affiliate links, so the charity make a bit of money from your purchase.

Pretty much like all the links on this site are affiliate links, with the site making £1000's per day. I wonder how much HUKD give to charity?

There is froggybank - kind of like a quidco/TCB for charities

Be sure to click through the RNLI link AFTER clicking the 'GET DEAL' link otherwise tax dodging HUKD will take the 5%.

edit: no s**t amazon is tax dodging too. i was quoting op but pointing out HUKD are doing the same.

How about Amazon donate some money to the taxman?

​and tax dodging Amazon will do the same... if they are so generous, how about paying their taxes?

good

Using the 5% NUS discount might cancel this out so choose carefully

I always go through easyfundraising for Cf when buying on amazon or ebay

​Give it a rest.

Rather than donate 5% to charity , pay your workers on minimum wage and zero hours contracts the money .....

Hey guys all this discussion about tax dodging is diverting attention from the good causes. This site is fast becoming HOTUKPOLITICS.COM :disappointed:

It is great, but Amazon.co.uk do not do enough to promote this. Adverts flash up on the .com site encouraging shoppers to do this more.

FFS! 2016 has already been through an assault course then some more and it is not even over yet! Now the misc-experts (senilesociopaths) have spilled over and started giving out pseudo financial, political commentaries and disrupt legitimate causes by telling us who to donate to?? If you have a problem then bypass your favourite tax-dodgers and help the future generation e.g. GOSH amongst many many other causes - except you won't and carry on boiling in your own p>>>! Disgraceful!

I am picking two links (causes I support) and will post these links on Facebook and ask my friends to also share! i wish I had known this before spending a few hundred quid on Amazon over the past month....Let#s get it heated!!!!

There isn't a lot you can do about Amazon dodging taxes.
I was just helping people ensure the 5% went to a good cause and not tax dodging HUKD... F*** me, right?

They do. Blame the EU for letting Luxembourg set up tax avoidance schemes others don't participate in. They'll soon move their tax base here once we leave the EU, lower Corp Tax, just as McDonalds have said they will do.

Let's break this down, shall we?

A worker on NMW working 15 hours a week for Amazon (or Tesco, or whoever) will pay NO National Insurance.Nor will Amazon pay any as his employer. That's why everyone gets a 15-hour contract or less.
VAT is a tax on consumption; Amazon do not pay it, the customer pays it and they pass it on to the taxman.
By warehousing, their Business Rates will be minuscule, significantly lower than a shop front on the high street.

The only bit you got right is that they will relocate here when we cut Corporation Tax, so they can reduce that part of their bill as well.

Nothing illegal about any of that, but virtually every part of your post was wrong and excused them for being pretty a pretty lousy (but highly efficient and very customer-focused) company.

Still cheaper than paying tax though ain't it!!!!

Any charitable amount can be tax deductible, so you are helping them pay even LESS tax.

Egg, meet face.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/p/feature/k3eaequ7cy8v762

On the contrary:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/tax-and-tax-credit-rates-and-thresholds-for-2015-16/tax-and-tax-credit-rates-and-thresholds-for-2015-16

Go moan at your politicians, not Amazon. The first requirement for a tax loophole to be legal is to disclose it to HMRC. So given HMRC are aware of the loophole Amazon are exploiting the real question is why aren't the people we elected to represent us doing anything about it? Lets face it, if any one of us could pay £20/year to reduce our National Insurance and PAYE by £1000/year you'd damn well do it wouldn't you?

Charities are scams don't waste your time with them.

I would rather have 5% off whatever I buy.

The links in this post are affiliate links, i.e. part of the same long-running programme that pays HUKD for stuff bought through their links. Nothing to do with the student discount scheme.

Heat added OP. Incredible how some people begrudge giving money to charity even when it's not costing them a penny! With that said, here's a link to the Bumblebee Conservation Society's page - Amazon link about halfway down. http://bumblebeeconservation.org/support-us/fundraising/

How does that Benefit buyers? They avoid paying 20% tax dodging and the underpaid workforce that they employ!! You are just increasing their profits. Oh by the way before some idiot says "it's foooor chaaaarity" the end recipients of most charities will only receive 12% of the front end payment after the fat cats and "expenses" are paid out. Anyway merry Christmas Barr humbug

One of the top hottest deals of the day, which is not even a deal... :neutral_face:

If a company chooses to continue to support one scheme giving 5%, but not another, it is still all connected in a roundabout way, otherwise why continue to support one, but not the other.

This post is about charities not referral affiliates, if this is not so please give me the link where i can give my 5% of all purchases to HUKD and i will happily sign up to it?

At least there is some intelligent people on here, charities are scams, so are the shops that have infested the high streets, Jesus they charge more than the item is worth new!! you are paying to keep these overpaid charity bosses and its managers that think it is right to take the profits from donated goods by honest people of this world to line their pockets. Get a grip, I would rather donate to the homeless crackhead, at least I know he doesn't have to pay 88% of the money before he gets his hit

Permanent employees on minimum of £8.15 after 2 yrs, £7.35 before that, minimum of 40 hrs per week. Both Amazon and employees pay NI and Tax.

You're wrong, admit it.

You stated they didn't pay minimum wage, and they employed on 0 hour contracts. Both incorrect. Not quite the bad guys the left want them to be.

Already battled cancer and had some family members die from it how are mcmillian helping it's nhs that treats you cancer is business like charities so all the money you pay to them to fight cancer what happens pharm companies then sell that for millions if not billions.

That's great to know I've never heard of that before. Well I be shopping there more now xx

Not really a deal tho is it?

Thank you very much OP. Didn't realise/remember Amazon had the same kind of thing here as they do in the States. Will bookmark a charity to do this in future.

​agree

****, didn't realise...

Be nice if they donated 5% in tax to us

October 31st it stopped, if I remember correctly

Nevermind the tax paying stuff. Old news. New news is Amazon fund organised crime by flogging bootleg recordings on their site - and refuse to remove them even after being directly linked to them. Yep "AmazonHelp" suddenly vanished after I pasted all the dozen or so links to the Prince bootlegs Amazon have illegally uploaded to their servers and even offer to gift wrap for you. They truly don't care about copyright law - let alone their drivers or a more morally proportionate level of corporation tax paid at UK rates rather than Belgian rates via pretending they have "no UK operations" (their football pitch sized warehouses obviously being just a mirage).

it can be very hard to justify giving small amounts to charity. How much of an impact can £5 per month make when the person that signed you up is earning £7.20 per hour? Large charities are not worthwhile donating to, in my opinion. Smaller charities generally yield more benefit in relation to your donation.

Kidstart is also a good one to cover Amazon (2%) and John Lewis (1.5%) that are not on cashback sites. The other rates don't tend to be as good as TCP/Quidco. The cashback must be paid into a child savings account or JISA/child trust etc.

Nice deal

​That finished from october

Would rather if they just pay their tax and fair wages to their workers.

I can't stop clicking the OCK-UK link.

I thought the NUS discount ended on 31st October?

how about HUKD paying their taxes, too?

they should donate their employees instead… :confused:

It did...

where is the link to donate 5% to business tax?

Well, controversially, the local Macmillan nurse I had to deal with when someone was terminally ill put me off ever donating to Macmillan. Her "help" was always far more of a hindrance and at one point even lied to the person who was ill in order to try and get them into a hospice that neither they nor we wanted them (and more importantly medically didn't need) . She was also constantly on "holiday".

For her, it was a job that paid far too well and allowed her to talk too much, without any hard work before retirement.


The district nurses did far more of a fantastic job, on less wage, and guess who funds them?
Additionally the MacMillan nurse also takes from the district nurses area budget when "offering to help you"under the guise of MacMillan, it's a completely unnecessary addition that is just draining money.


Hospital Hospice Macmillan services are usually locally funded though, and not part of the big Macmillan chain and it is well worth slipping them some money for the people who do require it as it does go direct to the cause.

Looking beyond even the front line staff for Charities though as well as the regular staff, will also hire many "poachers", sales people, on extremely high wages, flash company cars, and even more benefits designed to bring in more donations from the business sector.

People are raking in money off the back of people's donations. But people put up with it because it's seen as a necessary evil rather than what it is, a scam.

:confused: i didn't know there were this many that you could choose from, i only knew about Macmillan and lifeboats

Hey my name's amazon, i like lots of money, if you buy stuff off me i'll have more money and i'll be happy, in return for you making me happy and richer i'll donate 5% of what you spend to your favourite charity, if your favourite isn't on the list, tough just pick one that you like the sound of, sound like a good deal? :smile:
:stuck_out_tongue: that's right i'm bored

Christ, apologies in advance for any offence caused by my blaspheming, can anything to do with Amazon be posted without attracting the sanctimonious morons?

​Sorry to sound like Grinsh but this is just another way to dodge the tax man!

Here's the company listed at the bottom of the website..you may find it interesting.

https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/09729292/filing-history

Majority owned by a German company. 3 directors, 1 living in the Seychelles, 1 in Germany and the other in Australia.

Love the sanctimonious crowd on HUKD whenever Amazon is mentioned.

Don't act like you wouldn't do the same given the opportunity. I know I would - I don't appreciate my hard work being used to fund stay-at-home layabouts, MP's living expenses (that we all have to pay AFTER tax), the redecorating of Buckingham Palace, and every other pointless waste of money that the government signs off. The NHS isn't dying because Amazon don't pay enough tax, it's dying because the government is letting it. There's money to do the Queen's house up, but not to make sure there's enough beds for sick people who pay tax? OK then. Don't kid yourself into thinking it's the NHS which benefits from your tax money.

Someone asked why our elected government don't do anything about the tax loopholes? Probably because they and their cronies benefit from it as much as anyone else. Their top donors are exploiting the same system and the government are not going to do anything to upset them.

By using this site, you're contributing to a tax-dodging entity, by the way.

That's what I thought too. Hence why I asked what was ahotukdeal talking about....
Thank you for replying ma6jrp :smiley:

So they can offset it against their miniscule tax payments? Idiots will believe anything when they think they're doing 'good'

If you want to make yourself feel better, Instead of lining amazon's pockets, buy elsewhere and just donate 5% of what you spend to a charity you know will get the money?

Lol it's funny. Complaining about Amazon not paying tax. When they start paying whatever taxes these HUKD accountants think they should pay who do you think is gonna end up paying it. Amazon? Or us the consumer?
Your fun loving gadgets prices will increase

Or instead just donate the money yourself instead of buying presents which people don't need.

None of the money you give to charity actually goes to helping people anyway so why bother.

I would like to see press releases from the likes of cancer research shops stated with before and after expenses figures, rather than just ''we have raised xxx amount for our good cause'', so people cannot easily see how much of their donation went to support the shop manager(ess) and other managerial employees.

I said nothing about them employing below NMW. Nor did I talk about Zero Hours contracts.

A large proportion of people who work for Amazon will earn less than the Primary Threshold of 8,060 and so will contribute nothing in National Insurance.

You started banging on about Amazon paying VAT, which suggests that you know nothing about the topic.

For the record, I'm not suggesting that Amazon is doing anything wrong; they are simply complying with the rules as set out by the government. But these jobs and others are heavily subsidised by the tax credit system and most of the people who work in them will get out of the system an awful lot more than they put in and the shortfall is not made up by Corporation Tax or Business Rates. Therefore, it is not too much of a stretch to suggest that the system is subsidising Amazon.

Either you go fishing and catch some fish, or you stay at home and catch none. In the first case, you have to spend some money (petrol, equipment, time) but you end up with fish. In the second case, you have spent no money but you've caught no fish.

Charity can't just sit and wait for your benevolence anymore. It has to be proactive.

Not bothered to read the link have you. 95% of staff work 40+ hours, starting at £7.15, so 95% will pay NI. Are you saying Amazon pay no VAT? They collect on the goods they sell obviously, but you think they avoid paying VAT. Best get onto HMRC.

Tax Credits are the responsibility of government not business. Don't pay them and business will have to pay more. Prices will rise, but you have the choice to buy or not. TC's are exploited by large and small businesses and by folk looking for minimum hours required.

I'll be opening my own "I'm out of pocket because of Brexit" pub fund charity, if anyone wants to have their 5% donated to that.

"You've got to crack a few eggs to make an omelette." You've got to invest money (in sales staff or adverts) to generate more income than you would otherwise have without them. Did most of you know about all these charities listed? You probably knew of Macmillan because they advertise, and they make more money because of it. Besides, Amazon would pocket the 5% otherwise. Donating doesn't hurt if it's free on your part.

Wow, thanks Amazon! Pay virtually no tax for years, screwing up the NHS and other public institutions, and then once a year give a tiny percent of what you saved to charity to reassure everyone who continues to shop with you that they have a clean conscience. If you're so excited about this offer as to mark it hot, boycott Amazon until they pay their proper share. The next time you complain about a long NHS waiting list, lack of funding for local authorities, or the state of the roads in your area, maybe ask if you're at least partly responsible. Is saving a few pennies by shopping with these rogues really worth it?

Macmillan is not research.
I have had dealings with the largest two charities, and the waste is f. unbelievable! Charity begins at home. Support your local ones. Or the exceptional like epilepsy or lifeboats etc. Even the Air Ambulance had turmoil with the one called the Children's Air Ambulance, with the latter trying to get donations on the doorstep of other county air ambulance services. Most of it all stinks through simple wastage of money - because they get too much. Every family that has a cancer victim (there are a few of those, eh? - where is this f. cure!) immediately jumps on a bike or goes on a run to raise even more money. And what do we get? Bloody ancient poison chemo or radiotherapy - stuff from the dark ages. Cure? What, and put billion dollar pharma companies out of pocket, and masses of jobs. Don't hold your breath. Remember, very few get the 'I'm cured of cancer', the majority if they don't die get 'I'm a cancer survivor'. Yeah, and you can survive a car crash, but what sort of life remaining do you have? My neighbour has just died this last week. She managed just 4 years. 4 years of constant hospital visits, constant throwing up, hair loss, so bad she was terrified of going out and being sick. :confused: Poor sod.
Still ...she 'survived' cancer.

All companies pay those.

But not all companies pay corporation tax, or should i say, the correct amount of corporation tax relative to their UK sales.
By avoiding large amounts of corporation tax they have grown so big it is hard for others to compete with them.

Just because they pay large amounts of other tax doesn't mean they deserve a discount on corporation tax.
If anything they should pay a higher rate, with larger profits, just like personal tax bands.

How is this even hot. Amazon sucks. Their delivery drivers are idiots, they don't pay their taxes and the workers area treated like barn chickens.

Yes, it's entirely Amazon's fault that the NHS is going south. Give your head a wobble.

Big bag of frozen roast potatoes better then half price £1.00 at icelands when you pay get a free large baking tray today only

I always use easyfundraising as well. At no cost to me I have rustled up £150 for Save the Children. You can get loads when buying insurance / broadband - just google them and have a look at the site.

For bigger purchases you can normally get more money through topcashback or quidco, then donate some of that to charity of choice. Easyfundraising raises money on sites that you can't get cash back on normally like Amazon :smiley:

You have a clear mind and critical thinking, thank you for raising awareness! The truth is only one!

lol

I'm late to the conversation but the give as you live website is pretty good as tallies up your donations... You can select which charity to donate to. I have the aspinal Foundation from Kent who are awesome guys. Unfortunately the Android app is terrible and hasn't been updated and I always forget to go to give as you live website. :disappointed:

That is a good website as well. Although, I think customers are more likely to visit cashback websites where applicable. Are you not able to bookmark the page when you land on Amazon? It will have the referral link in the URL.

How about Amazon donate some money to 'Save the Rainforest' as well? Thier packaging is absolutely ridiculous.

And you just need to read more. He didn't say they weren't paying min wage, he said they should pay them more :smiley: