Abusive tax schemes
Offshore Banking
Transactions promoted for the promise of tax benefits with no meaningful change in the taxpayer's control over or benefit from the taxpayer's income or assets. These transactions typically have no economic purpose other than reducing taxes, or may involve the use of multiple layers of domestic and foreign pass-through entities including: partnerships, S corporations, limited liability companies, and trusts.
- — Abusive Tax Shelters & Transactions Glossary retrieved 2014-05-29