black economy

black economy
   the sum of goods and services provided without tax or official cognizance
   Depressingly black for the tax collector, perhaps, but not normally so for those who pay for governmental voracity and profligacy:
    All public-spirited citizens will want to help the Inland Revenue in its battle against this 'black economy' of untaxed income and benefits. (A. Waugh in Private Eye, March 1981 — the satirist was writing ironically)

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