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词汇 off-the-books
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off the books


idiom
in a way that is not officially written down in a person's or company's financial records:
These workers are getting paid in cash off the books.
Is he cheating the welfare and tax systems by earning money "off the books"?
US
removed from an official record, especially as a law:
Civil rights groups worry that, once enacted, tough new laws may be difficult to get off the books.
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off-the-books | Business English


off-the-books
adjective
 ACCOUNTINGukus
used to describe a payment that is not officially recorded, so that no tax is paid on it:
Off-the-books payment of wages in cash still happens in some small businesses.

off-the-books


adverb
They were paid off-the-books.

Examples of off the books


off the books
How much corporation tax is he going to get from off-the-books gardeners and window cleaners?
From the
Hansard archive

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This measure is above and beyond the budget process and replaced what was regularly an off-the-books practice called the general fixed-asset account group.
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Wikipedia

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North had also been deeply involved in shaping contra military and political strategy and in off-the-books schemes to pay for the supply flights and the munitions they carried.
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