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avoision

avoision noun: nonpayment of tax that cannot clearly be seen as either tax avoidance, which is legal, or tax evasion, which is illegal.

Noun

avoision (uncountable)

  1. Nonpayment of tax that cannot clearly be seen as either tax avoidance, which is legal, or tax evasion, which is illegal.
    • "Avoision" is how I referred to the panoply of questionable conduct about whose status as either avoidance or evasion we couldn't make up our minds.1996, Leo Katz, Ill-Gotten Gains, University of Chicago Press, page 52
    • "Seldon (1979) coined the term 'Avoision' to indicate 'the blurring between tax avoidance and evasion that arises from the looser connection between the legal and the moral'"2008, Alan Lewis, editor, The Cambridge Handbook of Psychology and Economic Behaviour, Cambridge University Press, page 306
    Synonyms:
    tax avoision

Synonyms of avoision

Origin of avoision

Blend of avoidance + evasion.

Phrases with avoision

Questions about avoision

What does avoision mean?
Avoision means nonpayment of tax that cannot clearly be seen as either tax avoidance, which is legal, or tax evasion, which is illegal.
What part of speech is avoision?
Avoision is a noun.

Words near avoision in the dictionary

  1. avoirdupois ounce
  2. avoirdupois ounces
  3. avoirdupois pound
  4. avoirdupois pounds
  5. avoirdupoises
  6. avoision
  7. Avokaya
  8. avoke
  9. avoked
  10. avokes
  11. avoking

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