Tax Avoidance

  

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Tax Avoidance

Definition: Tax Avoidance

Tax Avoidance

Noun

1. The minimization of tax liability by lawful methods.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 



Specialty Definitions: Tax Avoidance

DomainDefinitions

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.

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Synonyms: Tax Avoidance

Synonyms: Tax evasion, Tax planning. (additional references)

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Commercial Usage: Tax Avoidance

DomainTitle

Books

  • The Cheating of America: How Tax Avoidance and Evasion by the Super Rich Are Costing the Country Billions--and What You Can Do About It (reference)

  • Aggressive Tax Avoidance for Real Estate Investors: How to Make Sure You Aren't Paying One More Cent in Taxes Than the Law Requires (reference)

  • The Cheating of America: How Tax Avoidance and Evasion by the Super Rich Are Costing the Country Billions, and What You Can Do About It [BARGAIN PRICE] (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Tax Avoidance

SubjectTopicQuote

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.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Tax Avoidance

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

tax avoidance

12
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Tax Avoidance

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.

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Anagrams: Tax Avoidance

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Tax Avoidance


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

54 61 78      41 76 6F 69 64 61 6E 63 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010100 01100001 01111000 00100000 01000001 01110110 01101111 01101001 01100100 01100001 01101110 01100011 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#84 &#97 &#120 &#32 &#65 &#118 &#111 &#105 &#100 &#97 &#110 &#99 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 0061 0078      0041 0076 006F 0069 0064 0061 006E 0063 0065

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

5467902358881757067806971

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INDEX

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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