The phrase "avoid collecting" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when advising someone to refrain from gathering or accumulating something, often in a context related to data, information, or items.
Example: "To protect your privacy, it's important to avoid collecting unnecessary personal information online."
Alternatives: "steer clear of gathering" or "refrain from accumulating".
They shouldn't be able to avoid collecting taxes, either – that's just unfair.
These newly available procedures demonstrate an effort to avoid collecting Americans' routine communications.
Amazon.com's no-holds-barred fight to avoid collecting sales taxes in California is an abdication of corporate responsibility.
Economy and Business Overstock.com says it will cut off New York affiliates to avoid collecting sales tax (but Amazon will not).
Unlike most art dealers, who purposely avoid collecting the kind of art they sell, Allan Stone, a larger-than-life personality who died in December, obsessively collected everything.
This allowed member states to avoid collecting VAT on low-value imports where administrative costs were deemed excessive when set against tax receipts they generated.
To avoid collecting data about children under 13, many social websites require participants to be at least 13 years of age to join.
And they should avoid collecting things such as unique phone identification numbers in ways that can be traced back to specific individuals.
Federal authorities are scrutinizing certain financial derivatives that may enable Wall Street banks to avoid collecting billions of dollars in withholding taxes on stock dividends.
In 1992, the court created a loophole that has allowed online-only retailers to avoid collecting sales taxes while still requiring local businesses to do so.
Certainly, most families will want to avoid collecting all these figurines and play-sets, which would set them back over £300 – and that's before more products roll out later in the year.
