Comment by jmyeet
This is completely unrelated to the post.
What you're complaining about is overreach by the IRS in relation to foreign assets held by US citizens (ie FATCA) and the reporting requirements (eg Form 7938 and FBAR). It's worth noting that real estate is carved out as an exception for reporting purposes somehow, even though it's a common vehicle for money laundering.
That has literally nothing to do the Double Irish Dutch sandwich, which has historically been used by US companies (particularly Big Tech companies) to avoid taxes by moving their IP to a foreign subsidiary and then paying "royalties" to avoid paying US taxes.
You seem to think that the IRS doing that just for a laugh, or just because they hate rich people, and that Big Tech companies are the only ones playing shell games with their revenue in order to shirk paying their fair share to support the society they've benefitted from.
I think it much more likely that rich people also play shell games with their assets / revenue to avoid paying their fair share to support the society they've benefitted from, and that the IRS requires the extra reporting to try to counteract that.
This article is specifically about a specific loophole invented by unethical accountants and lawyers, but it's also generally about all the effort spent by unethical accountants and lawyers to come up with such loopholes, causing not only harm to society (in the form of free-riding on those who are paying taxes), but which in turn forces effort on the part of tax agencies and legislatures, which then forces effort on normal people like me who just want to make some money and pay our fair share. It's pure wasted energy.