How Big Corporations Are Starving Public Schools of Billions of Dollars

[Igel]

1. If they don't pay their required taxes, it's tax evasion.

And they tend to get charged with tax evasion and made to pay up.

They don't pay taxes they don't owe. Yes, they take advantage of the law. Then again, I claim all the deductions I reasonably can. I know others who claim every deduction their tax accountant (they only have an accountant for having their taxes done in the spring) says they can.

If they don't owe the taxes, perhaps the problem isn't the accountants but the legislators. But the problem is as true in (D) states as (R) states, so instead of eating our own we prefer to focus on those who act pretty much the same way we act but which are not-us.