Exactly. You can’t have it both ways. It doesn’t matter if you are an individual mooching off the government or a major corporate player - the principle is that your success or failure should not be dependent on government largesse (as opposed to your own efforts). Similarly, you can’t condemn the 47% using their political will to avoid paying taxes and yet applaud when a large company does the same.
I don’t know the tax system in the UK. None of us does, I venture to say. perhaps you can enlighten us.
In this country it is absurd, it is unjust, it is corrupt, and for that last reason it is impossible to reform - political careers depend on it remaining what it is - absurd, unjust, corrupt. We’ve been talking about the reform for at least 30 years - no can do.
That is why tax evasion (by those who owe taxes, not by the moochers who collect from the gummint!) is considered by many a noble occupation in this country.