While I also consider these tax avoidance schemes immoral (and borderline illegal, but who am I to judge ...), I have to disagree with the notion that everyone

While I also consider these tax avoidance schemes immoral (and borderline illegal, but who am I to judge ...), I have to disagree with the notion that everyone (everyone else, because noone's getting the multinationals to behave anyway) should be paying their taxes in a straightforward manner and avoid all the little tricks for the Greater Good. I believe I have 2 good reasons: 1) in a democracy, people are ultimately responsible for laws and therefore for such loopholes. It is their responsibility to close them if they consider them wrong, not to avoid them out of sheer goodwill - they only put themselves at a disadvantage and reward those who benefit from loopholes (because these crooks will be richer in relation). 2) If only a handful of multinations exploit these loopholes, they will not be fixed. Those corporations can afford to invest millions in lobbying and bribery to keep their tax privileges. So there is only one appropriate reaction: everyone must try to benefit from these tax loopholes until it hurts governments so much that they are forced to act.