Only on paper, and that's the problem. If you're rich you can afford tax accountants and you can dodge most of your taxes. It's like a couple years ago when people decried that we had the second highest corporate taxes in the world. They were right that on paper we had the highest tax rates, but then you had plenty of companies dodging taxes entirely. The tax code has been purposely complicated to make it easier for cheats to get out of paying taxes outright. I don't have any discontent with successful people, I just want everyone to pay their fair share.
There's fraudsters at all levels. I don't think most are looking to trigger an audit for themselves. As a mechanic you never did a brake job or something in your driveway for cash and put the money directly in your pocket? But that's different, doesn't justify it. I would find it hard to believe you didn't hustle some cash jobs in your lifetime.
I know the tax laws are overly complex and when I have had my own corp I sat down with a family member who was a CPA. Here is where most that don't have any business sense get lost, I could post record earnings, this is not a net profit number. There's capex, r&d the rest of the bills, matching FICA, health insurance if that's the case, employee theft and losses, etc. that get paid out of that. All the crap the employee forgets about when only thinking of themselves, Need to read the 10-k's, not the media headlines. Most publicly traded large corp's are working on 4-5% margins. If they invest it back in or give a bit for goodwill purposes it's not dodging taxes.
Here's another brilliant business plan, let's go on strike and disrupt supply chains to the point customer cars are hung up at the local level waiting on parts for mechanical and/or crash repairs because biting the hands that feed us is always great for business.