[vladvasiliu]

While I don't think you're wrong, to me, the issue is that those schemes they implement are legal.

Yes, they ago against the "spirit of the law", but that's pretty much it.

What frustrates me is this feeling I have that tax laws being Byzantine is actually a "feature", not a bug. As in the tax laws were designed this way. Maybe via "soft power" applied on the politicians by "moneyed interests", I don't know.

But clearly, there seems to be much too little action done to put a stop to this given how much noise politicians make about how Google et al. should pay more taxes.

They just come up with absurd schemes which of course won't be implemented, or again, will be but with loopholes such that Mom & Pop's store will have to pay a lot but BigCorp's army of lawyers will be able to dance around them.