Quote Originally Posted by pinkytoe View Post
The tax system as it is now is what allows all these manipulations to continue.
What specific "manipulations"?

I haven't fact checked it buy I believe many large corporations and wealthy individuals pay very little tax relative to their income.
Gross income, or net income? What's the difference? Should there be one?

The can also afford to pay clever tax attorneys to figure out how.
I've been looking for 25 years for these magic "clever" tricks, and some years I have written checks to the IRS for 7 figure sums. Nobody I have found knows anything especially magically clever. What are the magic tricks?