tax haven

English

Etymology

Compound of tax + haven.

Noun

tax haven (plural tax havens)

  1. A jurisdiction that levies low tax rates on certain economic activities, especially to attract wealthy individuals and (foreign) businesses.
    • 2013, Simon Jenkins, Gibraltar and the Falklands deny the logic of history (in The Guardian, 14 August 2013)
      Such colonies claim to be "more British than the British", except that they pay no UK tax and act as tax havens for funds from Britain. Gibraltar has made a particular specialism of internet gambling.

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