Comment by dathinab

can't we just add following to tax law:

"if your company structure contains additional complexity which main purpose is the avoidance of tax it's a crime"

I mean law has the fundamental benefit of allowing you to define what is a crime based on the outcome (tax evasion) instead of needing to explicitly rule out any way you might reach that outcome. I mean e.g. for killing people the law also does state it's not allowed without listing every way you could kill a person. So why can't we do the same for clear cases of tax evasion?