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The phrase "a vat avoidance" is not correct in written English.
It seems to be a misunderstanding or misphrasing, as "vat" typically refers to a large container, and "avoidance" does not logically connect with it in this context.
Example: "The company implemented a strategy for tax avoidance, but the concept of a vat avoidance is unclear."
Alternatives: "tax avoidance" or "liability avoidance".
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Banks and insurance companies will be £115m a year worse off when the government closes down a VAT avoidance loophole, accountants said yesterday.
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The group became involved in a row after the chancellor clamped down on VAT avoidance on products shipped from the Channel Islands because the system was being "used by large companies to undercut shops on our high street".
The UK is expected to lose tens of millions of pounds in VAT avoidance and evasion this Christmas as a growing number of non-EU sellers, including hundreds from China, increasingly dominate sales of popular gifts on Amazon and eBay.
A court battle involving Debenhams at the beginning of the decade highlighted the problem of VAT avoidance through the artificial splitting of services between different parts of a corporation.
Richard Allen, from campaign group Retailers Against VAT Avoidance Schemes, said the UK government should have acted earlier to stop it.
A: VAT refunds are primarily useful for large shopping purchases.
A VAT could solve that problem.
We are brains in a vat.
"If it acts like a VAT, taxes like a VAT, and grows government like a VAT – it's a VA T.
"A VAT holiday would be really good.
A vat of peanut oil was heating up.
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