The "Tax Loophole"

One day, neighbors caught Mulla Nasrudin stealing a prize-winning, incredibly fat sheep. To their surprise, he immediately butchered it and donated every single pound of the lean meat to the local homeless shelter. Baffled, the neighbors asked, "Mulla, this makes no sense. Why commit the sin of stealing just to give it all away as charity?" Mulla smiled calmly and explained his heavenly accounting: "It’s simple math. The good deed of feeding the poor completely writes off the sin of stealing the sheep. It's a wash." "So why do it?" they asked. "Because," Mulla winked, "All that delicious, savory fat is left over for me... as tax-free profit!"