Other improbable-sounding ploys work because the courts have blessed some taxpayer-friendly interpretation of a complicated code.

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And with the code so confusing, a taxpayer can rationalize that maybe a plan works or that everybody else must be getting around the rules, too.

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It evidently puts the taxpayer afoul of another one of those weird tax code provisions that make Internal Revenue Service agents rub their hands with glee.

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