avoision en · NOUN
Etymology
Blend of avoidance + evasion.
Meanings
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(uncountable) Nonpayment of tax that cannot clearly be seen as either tax avoidance, which is legal, or tax evasion, which is illegal.
"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:"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:
Synonyms
Translations (4)
fi veron välttely (questionable tax avoidance practices) · fi verojen välttely (questionable tax avoidance practices) · cmn 避稅灰色地帶 /避税灰色地带 (questionable tax avoidance practices) · cmn 稅務規避 /税务规避 (questionable tax avoidance practices)