tax shelter

1. 1.

   a way of organizing business to reduce the taxes it must pay on current earnings

   Synonymsshelter

   Broaderdecrease

Questions about tax shelter

What does tax shelter mean?

tax shelter means "a way of organizing business to reduce the taxes it must pay on current earnings".

What is another word for tax shelter?

Close synonyms include shelter. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is tax shelter a common word?

tax shelter 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.