Boris Johnson will tell Jeff Bezos to pay MORE UK TAX in face-to-face meeting with world’s richest man in New York

BORIS Johnson will tell Jeff Bezos to pay MORE UK tax in a face-to-face meeting with the world’s richest man in New York. He’s keen for the billionaire to tackle Amazon’s notoriously miserable tax payments and address employees’ gruelling working conditions. PAPM Boris Johnson boards the RAF Voyager at Stansted ahead of meetings in the US[/caption] GettyJeff Bezos, Amazon founder, will be taken to task over the company’s tax record[/caption] Johnson on Sunday night touched down at New York’s JFK airport for a diplomatic trip featuring talks at the White House with US President Joe Biden. The PM was joined on the flight aboard RAF Voyager by new Foreign Secretary Liz Truss and Cop26 President Alok Sharma. World leaders are convening on Monday for the United Nations General Assembly to talk about climate change – but the PM has put aside time to chat with Bezos. During the flight over to the US, Johnson was grilled about Amazon’s low tax payments. He vowed to challenge the online retailer’s founder Bezos over his company’s tax record. Johnson’s official spokesman said: “You can expect the Prime Minister to raise this important issue. Most read in The Sun 'AWW, LET'S GET NAKED' Two married cops ignored call-outs to have sex in police car on duty CROC ON THE LOOSE Woman stunned after seeing 4ft ‘crocodile’ lurking in Yorkshire garden BABY HULK Brazil hero Hulk announces his NIECE is pregnant with his fourth child NO BEEF Fans shocked as hard man Sky Sports pundit Graeme Souness reveals he is VEGAN BYE BYE BOYCIE Only Fools And Horses legend John Challis dies in his sleep aged 79 PLUS-SIZE ORDEAL My daughter, 10, is a size 22 and I can’t find school uniform to fit her “We have been an advocate for an international solution to the tax challenges posed by digitalisation of the economy… we will very much be looking to raising that.” Urgent calls for change come after Amazon’s latest accounts show its UK revenues rocketed by 51 per cent to £19billion last year. Despite the boom, estimates have put Amazon as having a tax-to-turnover ratio of just a miserly 0.37 per cent. Internet giants including Amazon have long been criticised for paying low levels of tax in the UK. The US firm’s sales here are FIVE TIMES bigger than Next and double Marks and Spencer’s. Asked if he would challenge Bezos on Amazon paying a fair share of taxes in the UK, and to improve workers’ rights, Johnson responded: “Yes, certainly.” “But I will also be congratulating him on his massive forestry initiative. He’s putting a huge amount into planting trees around the world,” he told reporters on the RAF Voyager. Alongside UN secretary-general Antonio Guterres, the PM will convene a meeting of world leaders to call on them to deliver on their promise to the world’s poorest. Downing Street said the UK has already committed £11.6 billion in international climate finance over the next five years. On Tuesday, Johnson and Truss will meet Biden at the White House. The PM will push for a restoration of UK-US travel. Biden’s administration has maintained the ban due to soaring rates of the Delta variant of coronavirus. Truss joined Johnson on the flight amid a deepening diplomatic row with France over the new military nuclear submarine pact among the UK, US and Australia.