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I don't understand characterizing compliance with tax law as using "loopholes." What are you referring to?
by SpelingBeeChamp 6y ago
I don't understand characterizing compliance with tax law as using "loopholes." What are you referring to?
- neltnerb 6y agoThe topic is obviously enormous and more complicated than "big business bad", but it wouldn't be a loophole if it wasn't legal. Defining only illegal things as loopholes is not a great line in the sand, it's kind of a tautology that loopholes aren't illegal. I would expect that the specific definition varies a lot by person because democracy. One person's corrupt loophole is another person's tax incentive, but either way the loophole is legal. What specifically the parent was referring to I'm not sure, but that would be why it is consistent to describe a company as both "in compliance with tax law" and also as "using loopholes". If they weren't in compliance with tax law they'd just be breaking the law. No one is accusing the companies of breaking the law, they're accusing the tax system of being biased and corrupt.
- specialist 6y agoDo you play board games? Which games don't have edge cases, loopholes, exploits? Of the games which can be "gamed", are they more or less complex than any given tax code?