dunno but I'm 100% certain it could be figured out by people who have studied tax policy.
hard to take very seriously the claim that this is not only possible, but common and a problem when no one can provide evidence that it exists.
Did you quote the wrong post? Are you referring to the claim that rich people hide income to avoid taxes? I haven't claimed anything beyond that, and you can't possibly be saying that is a problem that we don't know of its existence. Also I never said this was common. There are 100,000,000 tax payers in America and presumably the impetus of this thread was an article about 25 of those hundred million.
yeah, i don't think there's a secret tax code that only billionaires know how to order off of. every time i hear of one, when i look into it there's nothing there. the grand tax dodge is either giving all your money away before it's taxed or deferring your income for as long as possible or some very boring thing that everyone knows about.
maybe the secret billionaire tax code exists, but i'd like someone who believes in it to track it down and point it out to me because i've looked a little bit and i can't find it.
i mean there are very definitely things in the tax code that advantage the very rich, but it's stuff that's right out in the open like depreciating real estate when real estate actually appreciates in value, taxing dividends at half the rate of ordinary income and crap like that.