contra-trading

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

contra- +‎ trading

Noun[edit]

contra-trading (uncountable)

  1. (finance, taxation) A form of carousel fraud that evades detection by using two "carousels" of traded goods, where one carousel is legitimate and the other is not, and thus the input and output VATs neutralize each other to conceal the fraud.