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Is this not, yet again, putting the cart before the horse?
You state first that 'they' should get little or none, with the addition of the proviso that all that is 'legal' be done to ensure that 'they' do get as little as possible.
Starting from the 'horse'.
The actual legality of many of the niceties of tax avoidance are never tested. Much is worked out over lunch and a handshake.
The primary duty is to avoid. The precondition is the utter incompetence and congenital unreasonableness of the very fact of Government. The answer is set and fixed before the question.
Of the 'cart',
Government is a necessity. (Admittedly, only after one assumes there is such a thing as Nation.) But, once one does admit to Nation, and so to Government, it is wholly disingenuous to aver "Servants not masters" without specifying to whom 'they' are to be the servants or masters of.
For you Barry, and those who adhere to the same fallacy, all there is is 'money' and the apparatus of accrual. Your attitude to Government is one that denies Nation. The underwear-moistening notion of 'UK-Plc' was never any more than the legend on the brass plate of what was and is a Nation.
"Trickle-down meets pulled-up sock." Is no substitute for Nation, national laws and common good.
The very idea that somebody behind the till can decide for themselves how much to take from the drawer to augment their wages improves not one jot when that somebody is a Multi-National as opposed to some mere commoner.
It is high time these laws were tested, and if found wanting, improved.