The intensely driven founder and boss of Amazon, the world’s biggest internet retailer, evidently wrote ‘Take over the world’ some time ago on the top of his ‘to do’ list.
And every year appears to take him and his controversial business empire one step closer to that goal.
With his bald head and lazy right eye, Bezos looks rather like a Bond villain.
Amazon has displayed a ‘phenomenal’ ability to avoid paying UK tax, craftily recording retail sales made to UK consumers in low-tax Luxembourg.
It was a wheeze that enabled Amazon last year to pay just £11.9 million in UK tax on sales of £5.6 billion.
Bezos, 51, is also a magician with his own finances. The self-proclaimed champion of the consumer pays himself a salary of just £57,000 yet, according to the latest Bloomberg Billionaires Index, he managed to double his personal fortune in 2015 to around £40 billion after a single year of rocketing sales figures.
As owner of 18 per cent of Amazon, he is reckoned to be the fourth richest man in the world, comfortably beating the founders of Facebook and Google .... http://www.dailymail.co.uk
