Uber used 50 Dutch shell companies to dodge taxes on $6B in revenue

Large multinational Corp takes advantage of legal tax loopholes. Nothing new here.

Please deflame the headline. Tax avoidance is not tax dodging.

This should be stamped out and severely penalised. I'd even go as far as banning such company from operating in the country until they close entire tax avoidance network. If you wanted to create a local Uber clone, you just won't be able to compete because from the start you'll have to pay probably order of magnitude more tax than a big corporation. Then less competition means less innovation, consumers are worse off and capital is drained off the country. Another problem is that in many western countries anti corruption bodies just drain the tax payer and do nothing. I can see plenty of examples of blatant corruption, but I have not heard of anyone being charged let alone if there was any investigation going on.

What's the difference? Legality? If so, I'm not sure anybody really cares about whether it's legal (in an intellectual sense). People are much more interested in morality and whether a system is working well for society.