This is akin to saying "Well, I think there is something wrong with the tax code so I'm not going to pay till I figure out what it is". Some time passes, I decide that "Oops, my bad", here's a payment but no penalty payment provided.
It is alarming and frustrating that the land grab for power is seemingly endless and yet we seem to be unable to do anything about it since the cards have been systemically stacked against corrective action (we need a President & Congress that are willing to fix things and that is about as likely to happen while getting struck by lightning).
"Well, I think there is something wrong with the tax code so I'm not going to pay till I figure out what it is"
As an aside, Goldman Sachs and Vodafone have taken almost exactly that tack in the UK recently. In the Vodafone case, they dodged tax illegally for a few years, fought it in court for as long as they could (a few more years), then only had to cough up the original amount, with no interest or fines -- basically because they were pally with David Hartnett, the head of HMRC. Hence swindling the taxpayer out of billions of GBP.
That's not really accurate - they merely interpreted ambiguities in the tax law in the most favourable way for themselves (and paid all the tax that was due... In Luxembourg, another EU country). Google do this (in Ireland). Hell, The Guardian, the most left-wing paper in the UK, does all its financial affairs offshore (really: http://order-order.com/2009/02/02/guardians-tax-hypocrisy-is...). They pay 0.3% of their profits in tax. 0.3%.
A similar case is ongoing now (Gregg's the bakers) but bizarrely public opinion seems to have come down on the opposite side this time.
As far as I understand it, the British tax code has clauses to the effect of "business structures created for the sole purpose of evading tax don't count". In that regard, they didn't follow the rules.
It is alarming and frustrating that the land grab for power is seemingly endless and yet we seem to be unable to do anything about it since the cards have been systemically stacked against corrective action (we need a President & Congress that are willing to fix things and that is about as likely to happen while getting struck by lightning).