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jacques_chester on Oct 16, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ireland is to close a tax loophole used by Apple

Tax reduction. Tax avoidance or evasion is a crime.

Edit: I'm wrong, see below.

jiggy2011 on Oct 16, 2013 [–]

Usually tax avoidance means legal , tax evasion means illegal.

jacques_chester on Oct 16, 2013 | [–]

Oh sod, you're right. I hate being on the wrong side of XKCD386.

Anyhow, this is why I prefer "tax reduction". It doesn't rely on correctly choosing between two synonyms :D

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