Nation States Issues : Evasive Maneuvers

Today I’ve got this Issue on my Nationstates (nationstates.net)

Evasive Maneuvers

After a recent newspaper exposé revealed that many corporations in NATIONSNAME have been using obscure segments of the tax code to avoid taxation, an army of proletarian protesters marched on the companies involved. Naturally, the corporations sent out their own troop of crack lawyers, and they have met in the only conceivable middle ground: your office.

I’ve encountered with many choices

1. “Let’s look at the legal facts here, shall we?” asks Bharatendu Hamilton, a sharp-suited lawyer opening a manilla folder filled with a seemingly unending sheaf of papers. “The organisation I represent acted within the strict letter of the law and structured its assets as anybody would – in a manner to avoid the maximum amount of tax paid. Taxes are designed to reward certain behaviours over others, by offering a scheme of incentives and disincentives to those behaviours: the mere idea that a change in which behaviours to reward, and that my organisation should finance that change retroactively, amounts to legislative tyranny.”

2. “That’s bloody ridiculous!” puffs red-faced protester, Ivan Bronte, blowing spittle all over his supercilious counterpart. “They’re trying to paint all of this as something that any reasonable person would do – but it just isn’t! I don’t know every inch of the tax code, and it’s not like I can get all these smug big-shots to hang around the flat and tell me how to ‘structure my assets’, or some other rubbish. They knew what they did was against the spirit of the law, if nothing else – take them for all they’ve got. It’s only fair.”

3. “Erm, Leader?” whimpers Anne-Marie Laine, a timid conflict-fearing Treasury Ministry employee, cowering in a fort made up of boxes of tax code amendments, “I think there’s a way out of this. Surely we can just change the law to take out the biggest loopholes, without asking companies for any back payments for laws they didn’t break at the time? It’s not a perfect solution, but at least most of the protesters will go home and leave us alone – at least until they realize the corporate lawyers are back to their usual tricks?”

4. Dismiss the issue

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Option 2 sounds unique so I choose it.

The result saids ‘Companies flee the nation rather than pay their fair share of taxes.‘

In result, my nation get a boost of this qualities.

Authoritarianism

Ideological Radicality

Income Equality

Taxation

Environmental Beauty

Pacifism

And decline in this qualities

Tourism

Lifespan

Civil Rights

Obesity

Intelligence

Human Development Index

Employment

Economy

Economic Output

Average Income

Wealth Gaps

Economic Freedom

Sector: Manufacturing

This choice is not so decent.