If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck...
When they write tax law, every word of it is to fuck you. Take them seriously. All they do is look at you and say "thestructure was arifically created for the sole purpose of tax evasion" and to prison you go.
You could bicker with them about it, and after your attorneys took all your money, then they put you in jail.
Don't ever try to save a penny of US tax by any exciting means. All you can legally do can be found right here:
http://www.taxreductioninstitute.com/
There's another saying. There is no "easy time" when you are the one doing it.