3 ms·
Still, where is the line between "missing deserved tax breaks due to sloppy accounting", and (apparently immoral) "tax dodging"? If the tax laws allow you to no
by creshal 11y ago
Still, where is the line between "missing deserved tax breaks due to sloppy accounting", and (apparently immoral) "tax dodging"? If the tax laws allow you to not pay taxes by some means (which may or may not be crazily complicated), why shouldn't you use them?
Obviously, if these allowances are to the disadvantage of the state (and the society at large), politics should remove them. But blaming the companies for using them in the meantime seems to be barking up the wrong tree to me.
- ThomPete 11y agoThe difference is in the intent which can be hard to prove.
- lhc- 11y agoThe companies are mostly responsible for creating them, though. No representative is out there introducing complex tax loopholes that benefit his donors without prompting. Whether or not it is immoral to use those loopholes once they exist, the process of lobbying to create specific loopholes so you don't have to pay anymore seems more clearly unethical to me. You're basically "investing" lobbying money in exchange for a huge RoI in the form of tax breaks.