Tax evasion is illegally avoiding tax you owe. Charged with tax evasion, a tax evasion inquiry, guilty of tax evasion.
It is a crime, and the line between it and tax avoidance, which is legal, is the busiest line in the whole subject. Hiding income is evasion, while arranging affairs to owe less is avoidance.
1nountax evasionIllegally avoiding tax you owe.
“He went to prison for tax evasion rather than for anything else.”
tax evasion is a crime.
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