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Boosts the black economy , I suppose.
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If taxes rise simultaneously there is the prospect of a major disincentive effect on output or of growth in the black economy .
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It leads to the stimulation of a privately run black economy as its crucial lubricant. 5.
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Most women are forced through economic necessity to work in part-time low-paid jobs with quite a large number in the black economy .
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New careers in alternative economies, in the black economy and in voluntary work will also be studied.
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Publicly suppressed since the 1920s, these qualities have only survived through the black economy , or through private family oral traditions.
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The black economy refers to those unrecorded economic transactions conducted on a cash basis with a view to illegal evasion of tax.
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The existence of a black economy is, of course, not confined to the United Kingdom.