Rational actions can be deeply unethical. It might be rational to hire a big team of tax lawyers to find loopholes. It might be rational to launch PR campaign

Rational actions can be deeply unethical. It might be rational to hire a big team of tax lawyers to find loopholes. It might be rational to launch PR campaigns to misinform the public about your tax affairs. It might also be rational to hire private investigators to dig up dirt on politicians and blackmail them. Or bribe them, or otherwise corrupt them. UK tax law is complicated partly because the large accountancy firms have become deeply entwined with the policy making process [1]. This is used as a way to introduce and then milk advantage from the complexity. This goes way beyond just playing the tax game by the rules. I do think the government has a responsibility for allowing these abuses to occur. That doesn't make the abuses OK though. [1] https://www.theguardian.com/business/2013/apr/26/accountancy-firms-knowledge-treasury-avoid-tax https://www.theguardian.com/business/2013/apr/26/accountancy...