alt Hacker NewsPrivacy laws are not complex, they only become complex if your goal is to actually skirt them.
Tax laws are also quite easy, tax lawyers are only needed if you want to NOT pay what the country you're operating in is owed.
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would you say civil engineers are only required if you want to skirt building codes?
Someone has to understand the codes and how they might be applied to a specific project, and direct a project such that the outcome will comply.
Codes dont provide a blueprint for a house or a bridge. They stipulate features and properties that it must have. Design resides with the firm.
> Privacy laws are not complex
Privacy isn’t complex, compliance is.
> Tax laws are also quite easy
Yet audits are still a pain.
> tax lawyers are only needed if you want to NOT pay
This is nonsense. Tax lawyers are sometimes used to skirt the law. They’re much more often there to help prove you followed it.
Respectfully, it sounds like you just haven't dealt with any significant tax or regulatory tasks.
There's entire industries of experts who work on these tasks, and they don't just work for people trying to skirt the rules. I've hired people for both tasks and the reason was specifically to comply.