Corporate Economic Responsibility

A question I've asked myself, too, also for income taxes:

"Is it responsible for business to see corporate taxes purely as a cost to be avoided, rather than part of their "social contract" with society?"

This question is part of (though not leading in) an interesting article by John Elkington and Mark Lee on a new chapter on corporate social responsibilty: http://grist.org/biz/fd/2006/05/09/lee/index.html