&gt;&gt;Taxes are not a moral matter. Taxes are a legal matter.<p>Correct, but paying the appropriate amount for the services and programs you benefit from IS a moral matter. Taxes simply happen to be the avenue through which this is accomplished.<p>If you consume X dollars of government services and infrastructure, you should pay X dollars in taxes, regardless of whether loopholes exist through which you can pay less. Because if you pay less, you are doing two things: passing the tax burden on others, AND causing harm to the services and programs. Both of these are immoral. Therefore, not paying your fair share (note that I didn&#x27;t say &quot;legal share&quot;) is immoral.<p>You know how there are certain actions that aren&#x27;t illegal, but are clearly against what&#x27;s called &quot;the spirit of the law&quot;? This is one of those situations. Tax breaks are always created to encourage certain actions or facilitate certain results (e.g. Growth in a certain sector) but others figure out how to take advantage of them through creative accounting practices. That&#x27;s when a tax break becomes a loophole. It&#x27;s basically hacking the system.