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Jobs News: Amazon will create 10,000 new permanent jobs in the UK this year, which will bring the total number of employees in the UK to more than 55,000.

As the company expands its delivery network, the new roles will be dispersed among its corporate offices, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and its operations.

Amazon said it will open a new “parcel receiving center” in New York DoncasterYorkshire, and a new “distribution center” in New York (a warehouse where employees sort customer orders) Dartford In kent, Gateshead, Tyne and Wear and Swindon Wiltshire, each will create more than 1,300 jobs.

It is also hiring more than 700 employees for 700 new fulfillment centers. Hinckley, East Midlands.

The company said this will create “thousands of new permanent positions in the team, including engineering, human resources and IT, health and safety, finance, and personnel who pick, pack, and ship customer orders.”

It also creates corporate positions in offices in London, Manchester, Edinburgh and Cambridge. Amazon said it will cover a range of areas, including fashion, digital marketing, engineering, video production, software development, cloud computing, artificial intelligence and machine learning.

Minister of Commerce Kwasi Kwarteng welcomed this move:

“The news that Amazon announced today is really amazing and has created a huge degree of trust in the UK economy, which helps us fulfill its promise to upgrade throughout the UK and provide up to 10,000 new permanent jobs.

As we recover from the flu pandemic, this is a major investment in our retail sector.

During the pandemic last year, Amazon’s UK sales soared by 51% to a record US$26.5 billion (£19.4 billion). With the closure of streets and lanes, the blockade has led to a surge in demand for online shopping.

But, as our wealth correspondent Rupert Neate explained last week, tax activists continue to investigate the company’s corporate setup:

After Amazon’s latest company filing was submitted, people raised new questions about Amazon’s tax plan. Luxembourg According to reports, the company received a record 44 billion euros (38 billion pounds) in sales in Europe last year, but did not have to pay any corporate taxes to the Grand Duchy.

Responsible to Amazon EU Sarl, through which it sells products to hundreds of millions of households in the UK and the country EuropeThe data showed that despite the record revenue, the Luxembourg subsidiary still suffered a loss of 1.2 billion euros and therefore did not pay taxes.