This is absolutely false. It is 'legal' for Microsoft to avoid US corporate taxes by establishing 'shell corporations' in Ireland for international software sales. As long as they leave their profits 'offshore' no US tax is due. But for a small business owner or individual, similar profits left 'offshore' ARE subject to US tax and similar 'offshore' shell companies are illegal. In fact, one of the main avenues of investigation for the UBS account holders will be their attempted use of Hong Kong shell companies.Odd, though, that you have denigrated the corporate tax rates for large corporations, and now you're complaining about rates for smaller corporations, when they are subject to the same tax laws.
However, all of this is really beside the main point, which was a question as to whether a gov't has a responsibility to 'limit' it's total burden on businesses large or small to the point where it is still possible for those businesses to operate profitably in the absence of bad judgement and blatant mistakes.



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