Is there a link which encourages Amazon to pay the correct amount of UK tax?

The charity is called the British Government, the donation is called tax.

Well, if these large corporations paid their tax liability the Government would be able to provide more funds into services such as the NHS so your Mum would not need to rely on charitable trusts for care.
You seem to have an issue with Macmillan as you highlight them, however they are instrumental in the development of cancer treatment. Good old Amazon’s development include how to get Chinese mass produced rubbish to your doorstep by drone.
I know which company contributes more to the wellbeing of this country!

Its over a month old but includes more charity's

http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/shop-amazon-will-donate-5-charity-with-every-order-2577076

Its over a month old but includes more charity's

http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/shop-amazon-will-donate-5-charity-with-every-order-2577076

​That's awesome thank you for pointing it out. Can't believe I missed that post, I'll re-jig this thread so others may see it :smiley:

Admin - please could you amend the link to http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/shop-amazon-will-donate-5-charity-with-every-order-2577076 I've tried multiple times but it doesn't change

If you want to donate to charity, you can
through http://www.easyfundraising.org.uk just create a login and nominate a charity (even a local one) and buy goods through the website and a % will go to the charity, most shops are there including amazon.

The charity is called the British Government, the donation is called tax.

Is there a link which encourages Amazon to pay the correct amount of UK tax?

You can also get 2% for your child grandchild etc via kidstart

Thanks for drawing this to people's attention once again. Many people use this site and buy from Amazon and I guess the majority don't know about these affiliate sites which Amazon then donate 5% of total purchase price to. Takes me 20 seconds to close down Amazon, find the affiliate and then click through.

Experienced online buyers and people who know about cashback should really have no trouble doing this.

The people who criticise Amazon's completely legal tax arrangements, from their history tend not to contribute anything to this site and also appear to be complete hyprocrites when looking at their deal history.

It's very simple. Either buy off Amazon without them and you paying 5% to charity or don't!!

If I am spending £100 with Amazon I'd prefer a fiver to go to charity than not. It also makes it a lot easier to say no to aggressive beggars - many of which are professional.

Search for your preferred or local charity as they may be involved now. I was heartened to find that the hospice that looked after my mum has got with the programme so I now always click through there instead of Macmillian which pay obscene salaries to their board or the RNLI

The hospice that looked after my mum Weldmar hospice

Were excellent. I hope that there is a charity that is close to your heart and that you click through and remember whatever.

Hope that this post gets the exposure and heat it deserves.

Although I suspect it will be superseded but fake deals or Tesco wild goose chases and the trolls that scour the site.

Already a few ignores on here!!

Other than for amazon wouldn't you be better off using topcashback or quidco and then donating yourself? They have higher cashback rates.

I use easyfundraising for a lot of those sites that don't normally offer cashback such as Amazon, John Lewis & Lakeland. The only thing I found with buying with Amazon with this site is that you need to add items 'fresh' to your basket after going through easyfundraising (ie you can't just buy what is already in your basket) or it doesn't track.

Amazon need to re-invest in their customer services before they start giving money away. Awful downturn in recent months, moved the call center to distant shores (rather than Ireland) and now there are massive communication problems. Personally, I've canceled all my orders, subscriptions and I'm contemplating canceling Prime too. CEO office involved now.

I would rather have a 5% off my purchase price than give to charity. The chief executive salary for the RNLI in 2015 was £151110 + Pension and expenses.

Well, if these large corporations paid their tax liability the Government would be able to provide more funds into services such as the NHS so your Mum would not need to rely on charitable trusts for care.
You seem to have an issue with Macmillan as you highlight them, however they are instrumental in the development of cancer treatment. Good old Amazon’s development include how to get Chinese mass produced rubbish to your doorstep by drone.
I know which company contributes more to the wellbeing of this country!

Great link but don't really buy anything from them anymore since Prime.

I've had the RNLI affiliate link on my Amazon bookmark for going on 2 years now -- great cause. May shake it up and change for another this year.

I use https://www.easyfundraising.org.uk when shopping at Amazon. Gives me more choices.

Sorry i am done paying for fat cat wages and for their fancy lease cars attaches to expenses
i give directly to the homeless ect now charitys have been tainted for me

While not a charity (but these people do have family's to feed) you could help support a YouTube'r.
It's a good way to make a contribution to a channel you regularly watch without it costing you anymore than it normally would.

Look into how much of your charity money actually goes to helping people. Cold.

Sales must be quiet this month.

Some people are just delighted to find a reason that they think justifies their lack of generosity. "oh.... Rnli have overheads", "oh, people earn a wage with rnli"... Pah.

this won't get very hot HUKD rely on the same 5% commission :wink:

People are annoyed when they find many heads at these organisations earn over £200k a year.
It puts people off donating as they are simply paying salaries first.
They should declare the proportion of donation used to pay overheads.

With a lifeboat rescue organisation everything is an overhead. They dont give money out in aid, every penny goes towards operating costs, be it advertising wages or equipment.

I can see the point though but think its a little different with the RNLI.

They have a succesfull service who can operate without government funding and all the strings and bureaucracy attached.

Don't forget that HUKD change affiliate links to get themselves paid, if you click through directly via HUKD.
Shouldn't be too much of a problem with this thread, but previously people were posting links directly to Amazon website for RNLI donation from HUKD, and the affiliate link would change to HUKD over RNLI. You do need to go to the RNLI website via a link, and then re-direct to Amazon.

Why is it a deal ?

I had a look at the accountsnof the hospice you mentioned and they paid out £3 million to raise £8 million that's a really poor return on investment they really need to spend money on quality staff that you don't seem to like paying for that know how to maximise fundraising revenues with a reduced costs. Raising and spending money costs money you know. Finance departments, HR, comms, marketing are not cheap hence why attracting quality CEOs cost money but reaps massive rewards when fundraising. I give to Save the children myself who have had bad press for the cost of their CEO yet they only spend 1% of their revenues on fundraising.

If this government actually forced companies like Amazon to pay their taxes here rather than base themselves in low tax digital havens like Luxembourg we might not actually need charities anymore.

There is a site called 'give as you live' that has many charities listed that you can donate to when shopping online at many retailers. You create an account and chose your charity and when you are shopping go via give as you live and a certain percentage of the price of your purchase goes to your chosen charity. The percentage donated varies from retailer to retailer but even a few pence for a charity is better than nothing. i did install the browser extension for give as you live but it kept crashing so I removed it ..

Sorry if anyone has mentioned this site before.

Totally agree, but I didn't suggest it for any retailer, I suggested it for Amazon. There are several retailers that are on kidstart but not on other mainstream cashback sites.

You can also get others who are less inclined to use cashback sites, like maybe some older generation relatives, happy to use a Web add on for kidstart as they're saving for little Johnny or Little Jane directly without having to do anything.

Always better to know about something and be able to make an informed decision than not know.

Have fun!

People are concerned with the inhouse lawyer for HR being paid £70k and the chief exec' pay. One may argue such salaries are not necessary for a charity. They should publish salaries of top management.

Doesn't benefit me, cold.

You need to remember its a buisness like any other and you need the right staff in place to keep it running smooth and efficiently.

You could cut the salaries but then you will never tempt the people you need away from the private sector.

Some private sector CEO salary packages are into the millions.
Having the right people at the top is worth much more than the salary outgoings.

You know what they say, pay peanuts and you get monkeys.

​I can't see how. The changes they've made to the CS department are quite recent I think :confused:

Being a charitable person does not mean you need to work for free.

The CEO ex Vice Admiral Paul Boissier obviously brings skills he learned as chief of fleet support in the royal navy to the table. Would they be able to recruit these skills elsewhere for free? No chance!

Its one thing dedicating a few part time hours to collecting donations or part time boat crews but when it comes to the top of the tree you need to splash some cash and get the best you can. It pays tenfold to have the right man in the driving seat and they don't come free.

Most of the part time volunteers have income from their primary jobs, its not a full time thing.

If you were earning £150k a year, would you go work elsewhere full time for free?

Maybe your right though, people should just stop funding them, who needs lifeboats anyway?

I agree with one of the other posters I would like the UK government make a referral link that will make a donation of 5% from your transaction to contribute towards public services.

No of course not for free, but if i had said skills and was head of a charity i wouldn't take a fat cat salary either i would work for a very modest salary enough to get by because i wouldn't be in it for the money i would be doing it to help others, which is what charitys should be about

Yeah I noticed this a few months ago when I had an issue.
Seems now they copy and paste a generic reply hoping you go away.
Thats live chat anyway, not had the pleasure of telephone support.

I use The Giving Machine. Large choice of charities and you can select more than one, and the percentage to each, for every purchase through them :smiley:

​sorry, hadn't noticed the reply. I don't do anything special for the easy fundraising site such as clearing cookies. For topcashback I do make sure that the cookies track (TCB site tells me if my adware blockers are affecting it). easy fundraising site works well and CB occurs once payment is done (ie with Amazon when parcel dispatched which is when they take the money from you).