Stories like this make me question if corporate tax even makes sense. However well designed, a tax code with today&#x27;s complexities is going to have holes. If a savings of even one per mill may mean millions, corporations are going to spend insane amounts of money to hire the best experts to use every last loophole.<p>Why don&#x27;t we cut down everything to a couple of manageable groups that can be tightened down? I think the following set of taxes should capture mostly everything:<p>- Personal income including gifts, inheritances, capital gains, all on a set of progressive scales. This should include work benefits (like company cars) and probably include loans taken out.<p>- Use of public resources (property tax, vehicle registration tax, RF use...), taxed based on the specific usage (e.g. vehicle weight, or even kilometers driven).<p>- A consumption tax (VAT) could be added, although this doesn&#x27;t seem necessary to me.<p>Thinking about this for a couple of minutes, I don&#x27;t see any obvious problems. Applicability of the personal income tax would be a crucial point, and care would need to be taken to avoid loopholes. Why aren&#x27;t tax systems as simple as that?