| > Also avoid and evade are similar term.
> P.S. can someone explain why I get down votes for something factual? This forum is ridiculous at times "Tax avoidance" and "tax evasion" are technical terms in accounting with very specific definitions and entailments, and the difference isn't just in the English words. Most accounting textbooks and courses cover this. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_avoidance https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_evasion Even in Europe, this technical difference is recognized, but with one catch: the EU has enacted a counter-avoidance directive (ATAD, Jan 2019) - evasion is always illegal. This is not the case in most places around the world. Infographic: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/headlines/economy/201... Fiscal vocabulary: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/headlines/economy/201... Finally, the HN guidelines provide good tips on how comment productively. (see the In Comments section) This helps us learn from each other's experiences. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html |
> There's no such a tax avoidance rule that is allowed and tax evasion is not.
As I've said in many European countries both avoidance and evasion are illegal and my reply was about that since the OP implied that avoidance is a good thing while evasion is not. I let you read the other replies in this thread for the link that prove the charges to Google in Europe as I'm tired to post it.
P.S. Europe is not one country as is US and we don't have a federal state. Again, as I've stated many times, many European countries had this rules way before they were standardized at European level as testified by the fines that Google, Apple, Microsoft, Facebook had got in some European countries for tax avoidance.
Hope this clarifies and thanks for your link I gonna study that.