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Definition: Tax Avoidance |
Tax AvoidanceNoun1. The minimization of tax liability by lawful methods. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Finance | For tax avoidance, term used to describe not only illegal evasion of tax obligations but also the entirely legal ways by which a person may so arrange his affairs as to minimise, or even eliminate, tax liability. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: Tax AvoidanceSynonyms: Tax evasion, Tax planning. (additional references) |
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Economic History | Croatia | Structural rigidities, such as tax avoidance due in part to high employer/employee taxes, and seasonal employment activities, such as tourism employment, will be hard to overcome. (references) |
Ireland | Most recently, allegations of political corruption related to property development schemes, tax avoidance by business and political leaders, as well as other scandals dating back to the late 1980s and early 1990s have surfaced. (references) | |
Russia | There remains, however, a high incidence of tax avoidance by Russian companies, which has placed an even greater tax burden on foreign companies, with some complaints that foreign companies are more frequently targeted for tax inspections. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
tax avoidance | 12 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "tax avoidance"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Danish | unddragelse (avoidance, evasion, tax evasion), skattetænkning (avoidance), lovlig skatteunddragelse (avoidance). (various references) | |
Dutch | ontwijking (avoidance). (various references) | |
French | évasion fiscale, évasion. (various references) | |
German | Steuerumgehung (avoidance, evasion, tax evasion). (various references) | |
Greek | φοροαποφυγή (avoidance), φοροδιαφυγή,φοροαποφυγή και κατάχρηση (abuse, avoidance, evasion, tax evasion). (various references) | |
Hungarian | adófizetés legális csökkentése. (various references) | |
Italian | evasione (avoidance, breakaway, elopement, escape, evasion, flight, fuite, gaolbreak, gaolbreaking, get away, getaway, jailbreak, jailbreaking, tax evasion, transaction), elusione fiscale. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | axtay avoidanceay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | evasão (avoidance, escape, evasion, flying). (various references) | |
Russian | уменьшение в результате перерасчета суммы налога. (various references) | |
Spanish | evasión legal de impuestos (avoidance), evasión (avoidance, dodge, escapade, escape, escapism, evasion, flight, prison breaking). (various references) | |
Turkish | vergiden kaçınma, vergi yükümlüsü olmama. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-a-c-d-e-i-n-o-t-v-x" | |
-2 letters: excavation, vacationed. | |
-3 letters: advection, avoidance, diaconate, invocated. | |
-4 letters: advocate, anecdota, catenoid, cavatina, cavatine, conative, donative, exaction, invocate, vacation, vanadate, vexation, voidance. | |
-5 letters: aconite, advance, antacid, aviated, centavo, codeina, ctenoid, deontic, deviant, dioxane, exciton, exotica, inexact, naevoid, noticed, oxidant, oxidate, tacnode, vacated, vanadic, venatic. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)54 61 78      41 76 6F 69 64 61 6E 63 65 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010100 01100001 01111000 00100000 01000001 01110110 01101111 01101001 01100100 01100001 01101110 01100011 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T a x   A v o i d a n c e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 0061 0078      0041 0076 006F 0069 0064 0061 006E 0063 0065 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5467902358881757067806971 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Quotations: Non-fiction | 5. Expressions: Internet 6. Translations: Modern 7. Anagrams 8. Orthography | 9. Bibliography |
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