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You can if you’re the wrong sort of accountant!
It is simply attempting to benefit from dishonest behaviour. Unfortunately there are no shortage of people who regard that as a good way to make money.
opening the morality question again !
the problem is the money is not “owed” to the government is it, because its not legally due (as we all know avoidance is legal).
Whether “avoiding” tax is morally correct is a different question – and a harder one to answer in terms of “what is moral” and what isnt.
Only hard for the wilfully blind, I suggest