Key takeaways:
Amazon’s 2024 total tax contribution in Canada was CAD $4.7 billion (2023: CAD $3.8 billion)
Since 2010, we’ve made direct investments in our Canadian operations of more than CAD $65 billion
New investments in employee upskilling include pre-paying 100% of tuition for frontline employees participating in Career Choice
1. Amazon’s Total Tax Contribution in Canada: CAD $4.7 billion
Amazon is a powerful engine of growth for the Canadian economy. Through innovation, investments, and job creation, Amazon is helping transform the economic potential of communities across the country.
Since 2010, we’ve made direct investments in our Canadian operations of more than CAD $65 billion. This includes both capital expenditures (such as the fulfilment centres and data centres we build) and operating expenditures (such as transportation, shipping, and facility costs, as well as employee costs). These direct investments create a ripple effect through the economy, as the firms that supply goods and services to Amazon expand and associated household spending increases.
Since 2010, Keystone estimates that Amazon’s investments have contributed more than CAD $55 billion to Canada's GDP (Amazon’s spillover value-added effects represent the indirect effects of Amazon’s investments on Canada’s GDP. Amazon’s investment has indirect effects in the economy due to the expanded production of firms that supply the goods and services purchased by Amazon.)
As we continue to make investments in our Canadian operations and our growing workforce, we pay taxes that fall in two different categories:
- Directly incurred taxes: The taxes that are directly incurred and payable by Amazon in Canada include corporate income tax and payroll taxes.
- Indirect taxes collected and remitted: The taxes we collect from our customers and other third parties that we remit to the federal and provincial tax authorities. They include the federal goods and services/harmonized sales tax and provincial sales taxes in Quebec, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and British Columbia.
For the full year 2024:
- Our total tax contribution (combining directly incurred and indirect taxes) was CAD $4.7 billion (2023: CAD $3.8 billion).
- Our total directly incurred taxes were CAD $780 million (2023: CAD $631 million). Employer taxes accounted for the largest proportion of these taxes.
- The indirect taxes we collected were an additional CAD $3.9 billion (2023: CAD $3.2 billion) as a result of our business activities in Canada.
2. Amazon’s investments in infrastructure bring faster delivery to Canadian communities
Amazon's footprint in Canada encompasses close to 70 different corporate and logistics sites. In the last year, we celebrated the opening of YXX1, our first storage and distribution fulfilment centre in British Columbia, which stores, manages, and distributes inventory to regional fulfilment centres, allowing them to fulfil a wider selection of customer orders at the fastest-possible delivery speeds.
After successfully launching faster Same-Day and Overnight Delivery in the Greater Toronto Area, Southwestern Ontario, and Metro Vancouver in 2024, we recently expanded these services to Prime members in Calgary, Edmonton, and select surrounding communities. Prime members in these areas now enjoy faster Same-Day Delivery that brings packages from click to doorstep in as fast as 7 hours, along with Overnight Delivery options that allow orders placed as late as 8:30 p.m. to arrive the next morning.
3. We’re increasing our investments in skills training and career growth
Amazon is a major engine for job creation in Canada, with a local workforce that has grown to more than 46,000 people. Since 2010, we have paid more than CAD $21 billion in compensation and benefits to Amazon employees in Canada.
We offer opportunities to people with a wide range of qualifications, from entry-level positions across our logistics network to jobs for early-stage professionals and experienced specialists in fields such as software development, linguistics, logistics, human resources, and IT. Our state-of-the art facilities offer local employees a great working environment, opportunities for professional development, competitive salaries, and rewarding benefits.
All regular employees regardless of tenure or seniority receive a competitive salary and benefits package, which includes comprehensive health benefits and RRSP matching. The average hourly wage for eligible frontline employees is CAD $24.50 – a 4.3% increase over 2024 wages.
We are enhancing our Career Choice education benefit in Canada, enabling eligible frontline employees working in the company’s fulfilment centres, delivery stations, and sortation centres to learn new skills for career success. Amazon now pre-pays 100% of program tuition, removing the cost barrier for employees to pursue higher education.
4. We support more than 95,000 indirect and induced jobs in Canada
In addition to direct employment, Amazon’s investments indirectly support a large number of jobs in our Canadian supply chain and across the network of sellers who have used our technology and services to grow their businesses through increased sales in the Amazon.ca store and other Amazon stores.
In 2024, Amazon's investments in Canada are estimated to have supported more than 65,000 indirect jobs and more than 32,000 induced jobs in areas like construction, logistics, and other professional services.
5. We’re empowering the next generation of innovators
Your Voice is Power - an in-school curriculum program presented by TakingITGlobal, Amazon Future Engineer, and Amazon Music that teaches coding skills to middle and high school students while facilitating important discussions on the First Nations, Inuit, and Métis experience – reached more than 32,000 students and teachers across Canada between July 2024 and 2025.
