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hybrid mismatch

noun

C2CEFR level
97/100Rarity: very rare
TechnicalRegister

A cross-border arrangement exploiting divergent tax characterisations of an instrument or entity to secure a deduction without matching income.

The anti-hybrid rules neutralised the deduction once the mismatch produced double non-taxation.

Topic: Tax law in Legal English

Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.

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