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By choosing your words poorly, you actually are implying that they're doing something illegal. It could be useful to read through the following articles: Tax E
by joelrunyon 13y ago
By choosing your words poorly, you actually are implying that they're doing something illegal. It could be useful to read through the following articles:
Tax Evasion (illegal) - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_evasion http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_evasion
Tax Avoidance (legal) - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_avoidance http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_avoidance
- _delirium 13y agoThe 2nd article you link specifically says it's just a euphemism that was coined by tax advisers to avoid the "pejorative term tax evasion". In common usage, "tax evasion" refers to attempts to evade taxes, as the English words imply. All of those should be illegal, but some aren't, in part because the corrupt motherfuckers who coined the phrase "tax avoidance" have lobbied, and in some cases paid off, legislators to create loopholes. I'm not going to defer to a bunch of corrupt scumbags coining newspeak when I choose how to use the English language.