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💸 A fake tax form ❌ A failed result
false return

false return

9.1
A tax report that gives untrue information to avoid paying tax
  • noun
  • Jargon
translation icon : declaración falsa
  • Submitting a false return can lead to severe penalties.

It's something that started off as a legitimate and then he started providing false, you know, false earnings or false returns.

Examples

  • It's important to ensure accuracy to avoid accusations of making a false return.

  • The accountant was charged with submitting a false return to the tax authorities.

  • Filing a false return can result in serious legal penalties, including fines and imprisonment.

  • The accountant submitted a false return to the IRS.

  • The accountant was caught submitting false returns to avoid paying taxes on his income.

  • Filing a false return can lead to severe penalties, including fines and imprisonment.

  • Many individuals do not realize that submitting a false return could result in a criminal investigation.

Synonyms

falsification
vsfalse return
  • Formal
5 7.7

To make a document or record false on purpose by changing its information

refers to a deceptive tax filing submitted to evade taxes or mislead authorities

Surface Forms

false return singular
false returns plural

Morphology

false + return

The phrase is domain-specific: its meaning depends on the programming sense of 'return' (the value a function gives back) rather than the everyday noun 'return' (financial yield) provided here. A B1 learner who only knows the common senses of the constituents would not reliably infer a function's boolean 'false' return, so the meaning is not transparently derivable from the given words.

Etymology

False return comes from the old use of return to mean a tax report; imagine someone handing the tax office a paper with wrong numbers on purpose — a false return. That's why it means a tax report made to cheat or mislead the authorities.