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Eight members of the U.K. parliament led by Margaret Hodge, head of the public accounts committee, joined an Ethical Consumer campaign to boycott Amazon, advising shoppers to avoid purchasing gifts from Amazon U.K. this Christmas, as the retailer is known for dodging taxes in the region. “Amazon is one of the global companies that aggressively avoids paying tax on the profits that they earn from the business they undertake in the UK,” Hodge said in an interview with Ethical Consumer. “Not only is this morally wrong but it disadvantages every business from the local community-based bookshop to bigger, British-based companies like John Lewis and therefore endangers British businesses and British jobs.” Hodge, who had investigated Google earlier this year for