Many of them seek to re-classify executives' income as capital gains, which attract a lower tax rate.
There is a sense, then, in which attempts to classify and re-classify scepticism are a somewhat circular exercise.
A lawyer at the natural resources council, Geoffrey H. Fettus, said, "They're waving a magic wand to re-classify this waste".
The decision on Friday 30 October by the Office for National Statistics to re-classify housing associations as non-financial public corporations puts an end to this ambiguity.
Does it make sense to re-classify common plastics as hazardous, or are there better ways to reduce the amount of plastics we throw out?
If this happens, the ONS would be forced to re-classify them back into the private sector, although given that today's decision has been backdated to 2008 this is unlikely be a speedy process.
"I tried it for two weeks over the summer, and found that if you can mentally re-classify the early mornings as late nights, they really don't seem so bad".
Predictably, trying to split the difference led to double the criticism: neither side of the debate liked the compromise at all.Mr Obama's intervention has put paid to such legal tinkering: he wants the FCC to re-classify the entire network.
That's why, when Julia Hartley-Brewer wrote a piece in the Telegraph this week branding feminist 'radical' and 'silly' for opposing the Tampon Tax and asking for the government to lobby the European Union to reduce the tax to 0 per cent and re-classify it as an essential, as opposed to a luxury, I felt so angry.
He re-classified five flagrant-1 fouls to flagrant-2 in the past two and a half months, meaning he changed referees' classifications after games.
On independence, intra-UK trade would be re-classified as international trade, with Scotland's exports tripling to £74 billion.
