tax avoidance

British  

noun

1. reduction or minimization of tax liability by lawful methods Compare tax evasion

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tax avoidance

The IRS is pursuing cases in audits that look more like tax avoidance than legitimate planning, advisers said, such as people who set up trusts just before selling their company.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 29, 2026

Online uproar can disrupt a campaign or nudge quarterly sales, but it rarely touches the deeper structures: labor practices, environmental policy, tax avoidance or the hollowing-out of local economies.

From Salon ● Aug. 28, 2025

Those documents became the basis of a series of news articles examining what The Times called Mr. Trump’s history of tax avoidance and “outright fraud.”

From New York Times ● May 30, 2024

Over the past several years, Littlejohn’s whistleblowing enabled revelatory reporting by the New York Times and ProPublica on tax avoidance by the super-rich.

From Slate ● Mar. 25, 2024

“The accountant who wants to stay in business in America will be the one who focuses on designing creative, complex strategies, like tax avoidance or tax sheltering, managing customer relationships,” he said.

From "The World Is Flat" by Thomas L. Friedman