tax evasion meaning

• Noun: tax evasion  taks i'veyzhun
  1. The deliberate failure to pay taxes (usually by making a false report)

  Derived forms: tax evasions

  Type of: evasion, nonpayment

  Encyclopedia: Tax evasion

• 
  [Business]
  noun [U]

  (Accounting )

  the crime of deliberately not paying all the taxes that you should pay:

  new rules aimed at fighting fraud and tax evasion

  to be accused of/charged with/found guilty of tax evasion

  ◆ to clamp down on/curb/fight tax evasion

  tax evader noun [C]:

  a plan to stop tax evaders

  There will be an amnesty for tax evaders, who will pay fines instead of the full sum owed.

  ⇨ TAX AVOIDANCE

• 
  [Economics]
  Minimizing tax liabilities illegally, usually by not disclosing that one is liable to tax or by giving false information to the authorities. Evasion is liable to severe penalties.

  Compare:

  tax avoidance.

• 
  [Finance]
  Illegal by reducing tax burden by underreporting income, overstating deductions, or using illegal tax shelters.
• 
  [Law]
  Any illegal action taken to avoid the lawful assessment of taxes; for example, by concealing or failing to declare income. Compare TAX AVOIDANCE.

• There is often tax evasion in the case of customs duties.
• Dealing with the black economy in this broader sense, one must also consider tax evasion.
• Businessman imprisoned and fined for tax evasion
• tax evasion sentence suspended by court upon appeal
• He was also fined 75, 000 for the tax evasion
• Company director jailed and fined for tax evasion
• Study on tax evasion of multinational corporations
• How to deal the new behavior of value-added tax evasion
• On analysing the judgetment standards to the tax evasion
• Court of appeal upholds tax evasion sentence

• "tax evasion" meaning in Chinese: 抗税
• "tax evasion" meaning in Japanese: tax evasion脱税だつぜい
• "tax evasion" meaning in Russian: 1) (незаконное) уклонение от уплаты налогов
• "tax evasion" meaning in French: non-inscription de revenus