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> spend tons of money to dodge taxes and also > Y'all literally think following the law is controversial. There's a lot of tension between those two statemen
by CWuestefeld 3y ago
> spend tons of money to dodge taxes
and also
> Y'all literally think following the law is controversial.
There's a lot of tension between those two statements. How is your "dodge taxes" any different from "follow government incentives"?
A few years back I got a pile of tax credits for replacing my home windows and garage door, and as a result paid a lot less in income tax that year. Am I a tax dodger? Or was I doing exactly what the policy makers wanted me to?
When corporations shuffle around their finances such that the tax codes extracts less money from them, are they being evil? If you think that this outcome is bad, I think your beef is more with the legislators and tax bureaucrats than it is with the corporations.
- DrBenCarson 3y agoNot everyone can afford to stand up the international infrastructure and accountants required to offload tax liability. Not everyone does it either. Incentives for private individuals is different from shuttling obviously domestic revenues to an Irish-registered entity.
- CWuestefeld 3y agoBut follow the chain of this argument back up to the top. I was responding to a statement implying that everyone should have the resources to thoroughly understand the vast mountain of federal regulations. You're objecting to my implication that companies should have sufficient resources to understand tax incentives - a tiny subset of federal regulation. Yet at the same time, you're supporting the idea that companies should invest sufficiently to understand a larger body of regulation, indeed a vast superset of what my statement implies.
- DrBenCarson 3y agoAll I see are references to corporations, nothing about individuals