Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The act or an instance of evading.
- noun A means of evading; a subterfuge.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of evading or eluding; a getting away or out of the way; avoidance by artifice or strategy; artful escape or flight.
- noun A means of avoidance or escape; an evasive or elusive contrivance; a subterfuge; a shift.
- noun In fencing, the avoiding of a thrust by moving the body without changing the position of the feet. Rolando (ed. Forsyth).
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of eluding or avoiding, particularly the pressure of an argument, accusation, charge, or interrogation; artful means of eluding.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The act of eluding or avoiding, particularly the pressure of an
argument , accusation, charge, or interrogation;artful means of eluding.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the deliberate act of failing to pay money
- noun the act of physically escaping from something (an opponent or a pursuer or an unpleasant situation) by some adroit maneuver
- noun a statement that is not literally false but that cleverly avoids an unpleasant truth
- noun nonperformance of something distasteful (as by deceit or trickery) that you are supposed to do
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The present shiftiness, circumlocution and evasion is doing the party nothing but harm.
Archive 2009-09-06 2009
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The present shiftiness, circumlocution and evasion is doing the party nothing but harm.
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• Section 7201 – felony willful evasion is punishable by a fine of up to $250,000 and/or imprisonment of up to five years.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Pretending that no law professors question Obamacare 2010
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By the way, tax evasion is the unlawful avoidance of a tax.
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• Section 7201 – felony willful evasion is punishable by a fine of up to $250,000 and/or imprisonment of up to fiveyears.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Pretending that no law professors question Obamacare 2010
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• Section 7201 – felony willful evasion is punishable by a fine of up to $250,000 and/or imprisonment of up to fiveyears.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Pretending that no law professors question Obamacare 2010
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The development, which follows a long-running campaign backed by the Guardian to clamp down on tax evasion, is expected to raise £1bn in extra revenues.
Treasury to get £1bn windfall in Swiss deal over secret bank accounts Phillip Inman 2010
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Tax evasion is totally unacceptable at a time like this.
Osborne: Spending Cuts Won Ainsley Thomson 2010
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• Section 7201 – felony willful evasion is punishable by a fine of up to $250,000 and/or imprisonment of up to fiveyears.
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Based on my experience growing up lower middle class (which experience seems in short supply amongst posters on this blog) I can tell you that the industries where tax evasion is most common are those where you get paid under the table, or where you get a 1099.
Taxes and Market Time, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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