R.I.P., death and taxes

A New Yorker article about Amazon includes this statement:

• Most large tech firms avail themselves of similar opportunities — and Amazon, unlike Apple or Google, doesn’t transfer profits to foreign countries, thus avoiding taxes.

So Amazon does or doesn’t avoid taxes?

So many negative concepts in this one sentence — unlike, doesn’t, avoiding — even the New Yorker‘s traditional scattering of commas like birdseed doesn’t seem to sort out the meaning for us.

Just guessing here: Yeah, Amazon avoids taxes.

But maybe not by transfering profits to foreign countries.

Just a bunch of other ways.

Just guessing here.

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