Question

New York City recently sued two cigarette shops. The shops do not sell packaged cigarettes. Rather, they sell loose tobacco and cigarette paper, and they offer access to machines that roll cigarettes. These shops argue that they do not need to collect the $5.85 per pack of cigarettes in state and local taxes; the city disagrees. The shops contend that they are avoiding taxes, while the city argues that the shops are evading taxes. Define the italicized terms. Do you think the shops are avoiding or evading taxes?

Please answer clearly.

Answer 1

Italics are the words and expressions which are written in Foreign language to make sure that the reader will read them. Mostly these italics are used on book titles, Article heading etc so that people will notice them.

Even for Cigarette packets also it is mandatory to use Italics to emphasize the reader.

Now here the shop owners are evading taxes as they are trying to cheat the government by using this technique of giving tobacco and cigarette paper so that they need not pay the state and local taxes. This is a technique to evade the tax amount which they have to pay to the government and because of this tax evasion there will be huge loss to government in tax revenue. So this is an evasion of tax.