Sooty25 wrote:I agree!
If you agree, why bother posting!
Anyway, without wishing to continue this on ad-infinitum, this has nothing at all to do with Amazon or their tax position, and you're wrong that the end user has to pay.
As I already stated above, Amazon's policy is that non-UK sellers selling on the UK Amazon site need to ensure that the recipient is not charged any unexpected fees or taxes. It is the vendors responsibility to deal with this.
The way this is solved is for the sender to have their shipping company (whether it be UPS, FedEx, DHL, whatever) bill the costs back to them. It's one tick box when shipping.
Amazon aren't 'stealing from the taxpayer' - the shipping company pays the tax to the UK government, and then instead of passing that charge on to the end user, the shipper pays it. Amazon are not even involved with any of this!