tax evasion

1. 1.

   the deliberate failure to pay taxes (usually by making a false report)

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Questions about tax evasion

What does tax evasion mean?

tax evasion means "the deliberate failure to pay taxes (usually by making a false report)".

Is tax evasion a common word?

tax evasion 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.