31.   Critics respond that most minority-owned businesses are small enough to avoid the tax.

32.   Direct-mail operators are accused of bypassing this three-tiered system and also of avoiding state taxes the distributors must pay.

33.   Employers benefit by avoiding payroll tax on that money.

34.   Even in Germany, public sentiment is turning toward ways to avoid taxes.

35.   Flying the flag of countries like Belize or Liberia allows them to avoid heavy taxes and hire crews from low-wage countries, cutting the cost of transportation.

36.   For James, a prosperous businessman, financing a Mercedes is easier than financing the plant, especially because he had pledged to avoid new taxes.

37.   For instance, some distributors try to avoid taxes by claiming that they sell exclusively to Indians when they actually do a thriving business with non-Indians.

38.   For three years, hundreds of Russian companies used the zone to avoid taxes.

39.   Goldstein must have known that criminals and businesspeople intent on avoiding taxes would take advantage of such a setup to send dollars out of Russia, Malfi insisted.

40.   Funds themselves avoid taxes by distributing gains and income to shareholders, so managers do not automatically think in terms of minimizing shareholder liabilities.