off-the-books

off-the-books
 Cash or barter; Business done without records to avoid taxation.
 ► “So many Spaniards do off-the-book jobs that they’ve adopted a word for it, chapuza, which literally means slipshod.” (Wall Street Journal, Nov. 30, 1995, p. A14)

American business jargon. 2014.

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