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Originally Posted by Chris
If an aggressive tax avoidance scheme is found to be not legal in court, then it never was tax avoidance - it was tax evasion. It’s like the difference between murder and lawful killing - they are two different legal terms with distinct meanings. There is no such thing as illegal tax avoidance, just as there’s no such thing as legal murder.
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80% of schemes are found to be not legal in court, I like the way they use the term not legal rather than illegal to, probably because right up until the final moments in court it's legality is uncertain.