off-the-books
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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Barnes’s boss at the dental clinic, Pritpal Gill, said in an interview that Barnes told him before she left Sacramento she was getting a $15,000-a-month “off-the-books” package that included “a big house.”
The group argues digital ID could help tackle "illegal off-the-books employment".
From BBC
It relates to suspicions of "covering up serious tax fraud and off-the-books work", according to the PNF.
From BBC
For off-the-books assistance, she calls a man with whom she has a complicated past.
From Los Angeles Times
There then followed further allegations of misreporting financial information centred on documents that claimed to show secret 'off-the-books' payments to then-manager Roberto Mancini via consultancy fees from a club in Abu Dhabi, and giving players more money than was officially going through the accounts so that recorded spending was less than it actually was.
From BBC
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