Meanings
- uncountableeconomicsNonpayment of tax that cannot clearly be seen as either tax avoidance, which is legal, or tax evasion, which is illegal.
"Avoision" is how I referred to the panoply of questionable conduct about whose status as either avoidance or evasion we couldn't make up our minds.
1996, Leo Katz, Ill-Gotten Gains, University of Chicago Press, page 521 more example
"Seldon (1979) coined the term 'Avoision' to indicate 'the blurring between tax avoidance and evasion that arises from the looser connection between the legal and the moral'"
2008, Alan Lewis, editor, The Cambridge Handbook of Psychology and Economic Behaviour, Cambridge University Press, page 306Synonyms: tax avoision
Synonyms & antonyms
nounNonpayment of tax that cannot clearly be seen as either tax avoidance, which is legal, or tax evasion, which is illegal.
Origin
Translations
Chinese Mandarin 避稅灰色地帶 /避税灰色地带, 稅務規避 /税务规避
- 避稅灰色地帶 /避税灰色地带 (bìshuì huīsè dìdài)questionable tax avoidance practices
- 稅務規避 /税务规避 (shuìwù guībì)questionable tax avoidance practices
Finnish veron välttely, verojen välttely
- veron välttelyquestionable tax avoidance practices
- verojen välttelyquestionable tax avoidance practices
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