tax evasion
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5.3
- noun
- /tæks ɪˈveɪʒən/
- Formal
:
evasión fiscal
- After an extensive investigation, he was charged with tax evasion for concealing his income.
- widespread tax evasion
- charged with tax evasion
- tax evasion and fraud
So he said, man, that's tax evasion, you can go to prison.
- So he said, man, that's tax evasion, you can go to prison.
- Crimes such as fraud, embezzlement and tax evasion show a lack of moral character.
- Clearly, governments don't want to tolerate tax evasion.
- Has that entered the laundering and tax evasion equation yet?
- They have accused him of tax evasion, which of course he's evading taxes in Panama.
- Five of the top climate change activists are have faced bogus tax evasion charges.
- So we've got a real live mess going on here in terms of tax fraud, tax evasion and that kind of thing.
- And we always talk about and, and the tax world, there's tax avoidance and tax evasion.
- I mean, they put Bernie Kerik in in in prison for was it tax evasion for paying and and for paying his nanny cash?
- Yet they made my bank was the target of the largest money laundering, tax evasion investigation in the history of the world.
Examples
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Two months later, Sebastian Grove is arrested for tax evasion.
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I regard tax evasion and indeed aggressive tax avoidance as morally repugnant.
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All they had him on was income tax evasion.
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Criminal tax evasion sounds pretty serious.
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There are worse crimes than tax evasion.
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First, large businesses offer considerably fewer tax-evasion opportunities than small businesses.
Academic text (2017) -
Advances in technology may actually increase the possibility of tax evasion.
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But come April, Lyons goes to federal court, where the charges include tax evasion and lying to the government.
Academic text (2000) -
The IRS seeks to lower such tax evasion through the enforcement of the tax code.
Academic text (1999) -
Every other respondent gave at least one description of a situation in which tax evasion would be considered justified.
Academic text (1994)
Synonyms
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6.2
Not doing something you must do, for example not paying taxes, by using tricks
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8.0
An illegal way to avoid paying taxes
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8.5
Hide some income from the tax office to avoid paying taxes
A tax report that gives untrue information to avoid paying tax
How Legal
- Specialized
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4.1
- Specialized
4
3.4
1
8.0
- Formal
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5.3
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'illegal avoidance of taxes' is directly derivable from combining 'tax' (a government charge) with 'evasion' (deceitful avoidance); the constituents transparently convey the MWE's sense. This noun–noun composition follows regular morphological and semantic patterns found cross-linguistically, so a B1 learner who knows both words will readily infer the expression's meaning.
Etymology
Tax evasion paints a simple picture: tax is the money people must pay and evasion means 'avoiding' by hiding money or running away from the person who checks taxes. So tax evasion now means the illegal act of hiding income or giving false information to 'avoid paying' taxes.