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Originally Posted by HarryT
But the law has to operate on the basis of what the legislation actually does say. To do otherwise is to act in an arbitrary manner. If the law doesn't say what it was intended to, it should be amended.
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Yes. And if your moral principle is to pay taxes you should pay what is intended and not minimize according to loopholes you can get away with. You should not use a bug in the implementation.
Sometimes you also have a law that say that transactions whose only purpose is to reduce tax is not allowed.