tax avoidance

1. 1.

   the minimization of tax liability by lawful methods

   Broaderminimization

Questions about tax avoidance

What does tax avoidance mean?

tax avoidance means "the minimization of tax liability by lawful methods".

Is tax avoidance a common word?

tax avoidance is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.