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avoider

avoider

1 7.4
A person or company who tries to pay less tax using legal methods
  • noun
  • /əˈvɔɪdər/
translation icon : evasor
  • Wealthy tax avoiders or hard working parents?
  • tax avoider

Examples

  • Many wealthy individuals hire experts to help them become skilled avoiders of taxes through various loopholes.

  • He took the money, he gave a job to the head of HSBC and he lets the tax avoiders get away with it.

  • Sanders compiled a list of some of the 10 worst corporate income tax avoiders.

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  • That way, BBC-avoiders wouldn't have to pay anything, and enforcement costs would drop.

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  • I-90 will be similar; when traffic flow doubles due to toll avoiders, the benefit-to-cost ratio will send drivers back to 520.

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  • Under a resource allocation theory, it is necessary to identify the party that can avoid the costs at the least expense—the cheapest cost-avoider.

    Academic text (1990)
  • Real estate developers, corporate polluters, tax avoiders... they’re all pretty happy, right?

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  • The New York Times notes that the banker's information dealt a severe blow to Switzerland's status as a safe haven, leading several tax avoiders to scramble for settlements that netted the IRS $5 billion.

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  • With Thompson and Morgan stalling over exactly who and where in Egypt this killer food comes from hardly seems to display openness, and T&M are themselves avowed avoiders of GMO seed.

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  • Corporate avoiders often use complex strategies to minimize their tax payments legally.

Antonyms

67 2.1

A person or company that gives money to get goods and services

How Evasive

swindler
15 5.4
evader
4 7.2
avoider
1 7.4

Surface Forms

avoider singular
avoiders plural

Morphology

avoider = avoid (transparent) = avoid + er

The word is transparently derived from 'avoid' with the addition of the suffix '-er' to indicate a person who performs the action.

Etymology

Avoider comes from the verb avoid, which means 'to keep away'. So a tax avoider is someone who uses legal ways or gaps in the rules to keep taxes away from themselves.