ICE's CORPORATE
COLLABORATORS: EXPOSED
How Amazon cashed in on Trump’s tax handouts—and helped ICE track, detain, and deport families.
$263 million
Based on SEC proxy statements, Andrew R. Jassy, CEO of Amazon, received an estimated cumulative ordinary income of $263 million from 2018 through 2024.
$6.9 million
From this estimate his personal tax cut from the 2017 Trump-GOP tax law could be $6.9 million over that same period, just from the reduced top tax bracket.
Over that same period (2018 to 2024) the CEO’s total pay, counting unrealized income and non-taxable benefits, was
1,067 times more
than the median Amazon worker’s
salary over those same seven years.
The collective compensation (excluding vested stock and exercised options) of the top five Amazon executives from 2018 to 2024 was
$874 million
From 2018 to 2024,
Amazon reported over
$159 billion
of domestic profits.
But it paid an effective
tax rate of just
15%
even though the statutory
corporate tax rate is set at 21%.
That means Amazon has received
$9.5 billion
in tax cuts through deductions and loopholes over the last 7 years.
Over the last 12 years (2013 to 2024),
Amazon spent $857 million on stock buybacks.
Amazon is a massive federal contractor. One single contract for the National Security Agency (NSA) was worth $10 billion. But many of these services are used across government agencies mostly in the form of cloud computing. Those services have become vital to ICE's crackdown on immigrants, with their data storage being used for mass surveillance and deportation.
Amazon has spent
$8 million
influencing federal elections through campaign donations over the last decade.
It also spent
$161 million
lobbying members of Congress on legislation during that same time period.
On top of that, Amazon gave the Trump Inaugural Committee
$1.9 million
in 2024.
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