That aside tax is theft.
UK - if I go sole trader, I will lose approximately 33% of my profit in tax in the form of Class D National Insurance. Say that tax was £8,000 for the year. So I pay £8,000 and HMRC wants half upfront in lieu of the coming year. Minimum wage does not apply to the self employed.
So I chose to go limited company, per the law. Minimum wage does not apply to me because although it's a company and I'm a director, I'm still classed as self employed, per the law. So I pay myself a wage that does not attract income tax and National Insurance. The company makes £x amount in profit and pays 20% tax on that that profit. As a director, I can take any amount of that profit as a dividend, and as The company paid tax on that profit, I have no further tax liability on that income, assuming it doesn't go above income tax tax bands. And my personal income tax and NI payments for the past 20 years has been £zero.
Now that's all within the tax rules. The funny thing is, unless you pick the shit end of the rules and pay loads of tax, you are classed as tax avoiding because you know more of the tax rules to move you away from the shit end. And the more tax law knowledge you have, and the better the accountant, the taxman dislikes it and calls it Tax Avoidance.
If I lived in a Direct Democracy, I would probably move a little closer to the shit end of the tax system, but until the government stops paying asylum seekers wages, avoidance it is.
