It might work, but it's not pretty. If you saw a professional contractor do this, it might make you question his qualifications. The government equivalent of this type of abuse is watching how tax incentives are used to enhance economic growth.
Tax incentives are, by far, the most abused tool in the government toolbox.
Many lawmakers view tax incentives as the tool of choice for almost any problem. Quick, create a tax incentive. Tax incentive to the rescue. It is just this sort of thinking that led to the alternative fuels tax incentive passed last year, which was easily the most ill conceived tax incentive of recent memory. The majority of tax incentives are aimed at economic growth.