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No argument from me on the moral side of things. But I'd be in hot water if I wrote for publication that someone had evaded taxes when they'd only avoided them - easy grounds for a defamation suit.
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Exactly. Knew a proper philosopher would get the point.
Maybe I needed to be clearer, morally evasion and avoidance are synonyms.
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I agree they have said that. But leaving out what they said (barefaced).
Isn't tax evasion always immoral, but tax avoidance a sliding scale, where at one end it's an ISA at your regular bank, and the other it's no different *except for the legality bit* to evasion?
Some forms of tax avoidance could be seen as simply paying as much tax as you should no less but certainly no more.
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Not in legal terms they're not. One is a crime, the other not. The distinction is important.