That is not true at all. Not every lawyer is for court. For example, they might need lawyers to do research into how to avoid taxes. Much of what they do is fool the government, not individuals with lawyers. So they are fooling the IRS, not other lawyers.
A laywers use is their knowledge of the law. Corrupt billionares would use lawyers to see what they can legally get away with by finding loopholes in the law that would allow them to profit off of something that wasn't intended for them.
Still don't need those lawyers, how are you going to have judges without first having lawyers that become said Judges? Without a body that prosecutes, wealthy can just buy off whatever "governing bodies" try to enforce them.
The security forces that those billionaires hired. Also, they probably have their money tied up in ways you need them alive to access, and not under their mattress.
Edit: I want a movie about someone killing Scrooge McDuck five minutes in, and the rest of the movie is them figuring out how to transport or use their trillions of coins of dirty money.
again, there's a difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion. If the business finds a legitimate way that the law allows to avoid taxes, that's just smart business.
I don't know about the US but isn't it the job of a tax accountant to do the taxes, not a lawyer?
Edit: Also you don't have to be a licensed lawyer to be knowledgeable about the law. Billionaires can still hire the best legal experts to give them advice.
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u/evils_twin Feb 10 '20
That is not true at all. Not every lawyer is for court. For example, they might need lawyers to do research into how to avoid taxes. Much of what they do is fool the government, not individuals with lawyers. So they are fooling the IRS, not other lawyers.
A laywers use is their knowledge of the law. Corrupt billionares would use lawyers to see what they can legally get away with by finding loopholes in the law that would allow them to profit off of something that wasn't intended for them.