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Tax avoidance humbug

More tax avoidance humbug from Polly Toynbee in the Guardian. The comments are generally not much better, falling into two categories. Those in the first express the faux-libertarian view that all taxation is theft. The alternative view is indignation, accompanied by a call for greater toughness. It seems not to be appreciated that if an action is immoral but legal, which by definition, is the case with tax avoidance, then the law must be brought into line with morality. And a dose of practicality would not come amiss either.