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avoision

noun

Etymology

Blend of avoidance + evasion.

  1. derived from evasionem
  2. derived from évasion
  3. compounded as avoision — “avoidance + evasion”

Definitions

  1. Nonpayment of tax that cannot clearly be seen as either tax avoidance, which is legal, or…

    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.
    • "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'"

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA