GreyWanderingRogue - Slashdot User

Comment Tax Avoidance Analogy (Score 1) 780

by GreyWanderingRogue on Thursday December 13, 2012 @02:00PM (#42276285) Attached to: Schmidt On Why Tax Avoidance is Good, Robot Workers, and Google Fiber

I've read a lot of comments here about whether tax avoidance is ethical or not. I have an analogy that I think sums it up. Assume that a child tax credit law was written poorly (intentionally or not) to allow the full tax credit for any children under your care on 12:00 am January 1. Now suppose as an individual paying taxes, you could go into an orphanage and adopt a couple of children at 11:59 pm on December 31, and then cancel the adoption at 12:01. Let's suppose you even give the kids a piece of candy for their trouble. The orphanages agree to this, as it reduces their candy budget requirements. You then claim the full tax deduction. Is this ethical?

Submission + - British Kid Flies To Rome Without Passport And Ticket (menmedia.co.uk)

Submitted by jones_supa on Wednesday July 25, 2012 @08:21AM

jones_supa writes: A boy of 11 flew alone to Rome after he ran away from his mother and boarded a flight at Manchester Airport without a passport, boarding pass or cash. Security staff scanned him but failed to realize he was on his own and had no boarding card. It was only during the journey to Italy that passengers became suspicious and told the cabin crew. The crew members alerted the captain who radioed back to Manchester. Now a full-scale investigation has been mounted by Manchester Airport and Jet2.com to find out how this was possible. It is understood five members of staff working for Jet2.com have been suspended from duty while the investigation takes place.

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