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This is because they necessarily are in fact, but because they necessarily are ''as far as anyone else can tell''. For no-one who ''isn’t'' a tax lawyer can bear the prospect of getting close enough to the topic to know whether a self-professed tax expert knows what she is talking about and, as such, there is no independent means of determining what a given tax position is other than by asking a tax lawyer — any tax lawyer — to tell you, and thereafter that answer cannot be gainsaid.
This is because they necessarily are in fact, but because they necessarily are ''as far as anyone else can tell''. For no-one who ''isn’t'' a tax lawyer can bear the prospect of getting close enough to the topic to know whether a self-professed tax expert knows what she is talking about and, as such, there is no independent means of determining what a given tax position is other than by asking a tax lawyer — any tax lawyer — to tell you, and thereafter that answer cannot be gainsaid.


The famous counter-intuitivity of tax law — how nothing seems to make any sense to the laity, however hard they can bear to look at it — is indicative, in the alternative, of the following facts: <br>
The famous counter-intuitivity of tax law — how, to the laity, nothing in it makes any sense in any circumstances however hard they can bear to look at it — may indicate, in the alternative, that either: <br>
:(i) any understanding of tax law requires an ineffable [[ninja]]dom that cannot be apprehended, much less appreciated by anyone else; ergo tax expertise is somehow Godly and pure; or <br>
(i) Any understanding of tax law requires [[ninja|ninjery]] so ineffable it cannot be apprehended, much less appreciated. by any lesser mind; ''ergo'' tax expertise is somehow Godly and pure; or <br>
:(ii) tax law is an total shower and anyone who claims expertise in tax matters is an outright charlatan. There is no God; to the contrary we are not just ''close'' to the [[abyss]] that yawns away below the [[Elephants and turtles|turtles]], but staring directly ''at'' it.
(ii) Tax law is a total shower and anyone who claims expertise in it is an outright charlatan. In this view there is no God; to the contrary, when we hold tax considerations in contemplation we are not just ''close'' to the [[abyss]] that yawns away below our [[Elephants and turtles|turtles]], but staring directly ''at'' it.


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