Please cut the ’avoidance, not evasion’ bullshit. This scheme is outright evasion, legalized by lobbying in Brussels against national law. You know that otherwise you wouldn’t care to point out this nuisance.
Evasion is solved by rigorously enforcing existing tax frameworks. Avoidance is solved by closing loopholes. They're two different problems—although they share some things in common—and they require two different solutions.
Even those of us who are sure that after cutting down all the laws, we could not stand in the winds that would blow then (to paraphrase Bolt)... can feel appalled at such laws, their originators, facilitators, and apologists.
Agreed. The problem, and the source of the frustration, is that your average poster on hacker news (or average human being on earth) has 0% influence on either of the solutions. It is the mega rich who hold all the power, who have the resources, energy, and clout to play these games.
It doesn't really matter how you distinguish evasion and avoidance, both are driven by the same motivations, and where the line separating the two stands in any given jurisdiction is defined less by the qualities of the actual actions, and more by how much the rich have managed to encode into law vs. how safe they feel openly breaking it.
I think it's a nice, cromulent word that we can all agree on.
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