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Originally Posted by auspex
Depends where you are. The Canada Revenue Agency calls "tax avoidance" a crime. They say that minimizing your tax payments in a way that is "consistent with the intent of the law" (note that they don't care about the letter of the law!) is "tax planning". Hilary Clinton calls Donald Trump's tax avoidance morally reprehensible, whether it be found to be legal or not...
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A number of countries use the term "avoidance" in their tax legislation to capture evasion and aoidance and has come about, I assume, to prevent dancing on the head of a pin by plaintiffs in tax cases. NZ (which this thread was started about) and Australia are other examples, so the practice is commonplace.
However, insofar as tax is concerned Harry's definitions are absolutely correct and even a passing consideration will show them to be aligned with the intent of legislation using only the term "avoidance".