And there are very many kinds of tax avoidance. Apocryphically: at the time when Sweden's income taxes were on their most absurd levels [0], medical doctors wou

And there are very many kinds of tax avoidance. Apocryphically: at the time when Sweden's income taxes were on their most absurd levels [0], medical doctors would reduce their working hours because their marginal tax rate was well above 50 % and they got little in return for extra hours. This was clearly tax avoidance, or course. Someone then noticed this and made a proposal to tackle it with a tax called "tax on income avoided by refusal to work". That law didn't pass even in Sweden in 1970's. But clearly it was tax avoidance which thus was allowed to run rampant. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomperipossa_in_Monismania https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomperipossa_in_Monismania