Attempts: Keep the Highest: /2 8. Tax evasion versus tax avoidance Money Management and Tax Planning Money management includes effective tax planning. Your financial plan should include ways to lower your tax liability so you have more money to spend, invest, or donate. The key to effective tax planning is to reduce your taxable income, rather than your gross income, through all appropriate and legally available opportunities. The act of reducing taxes by deliberately understating income or overstating deductions is called tax avoidance Tax evasion or tax avoidance? tax evasion Ayesha is preparing her tax return for the year and is looking at ways to save on her tax bill Ayer women ur time in the day and tended bar at night. Her daytime employer reported her income for her job, but her tips from tending bar at night were not reported to the IRS. Ayesha is thinking about leaving the tip earnings out of her income on her tax return. Is this tax evasion or tax avoidance? Tax avoidance Tax evasion