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by e12e 4280 days ago
> A few hundred thousand by an individual is literally a rounding error to tax revenue.

Which is why I said: "All that said, if you sneak away a million US or so, go for it. It makes no difference what any one individual does as such(...)".

> (...) it's a fact that a large number of very profitable companies have avoided hundreds of billions of dollars in taxes over recent years. (...) Take your tax crusade to Apple, Google, Amazon, Microsoft and the rest of the billion dollar club who are stealing your precious taxes by the hundreds of billions.

Doing one does not preclude the other. If a company destroys wetlands by dumping chemical waste, that does not make it ok for an individual to destroy a small grove by doing the same.

What I probably failed to get across is that my main point is that I don't think it is OK to dodge taxes; I'm fully aware that pretty much anything any one individual does becomes a rounding error compared to what a big corporation does. But corporations are made up of people, and those people are guided by among other things prevailing sentiment. So the young whipper-snapper that starts out by dodging some taxes today, might think little of dodging billions in the capacity as CFO in thirty years.