Scott Free - term for not paying taxes

CF NEVER PAID ANY TAXES

• the origin of 'scot free'. Wrong again, but at least we are in the right part of the world now. 'Skat' is a Scandinavian word for tax or payment and the word migrated to Britain and mutated into 'scot' as the name of a redistributive taxation, levied as early the 10th century as a form of municipal poor relief.

'Scot' as a term for tax has been used since then in various forms - Church scot, Rome scot, Soul scot and so on. Whatever the tax, the phrase 'getting off scot free' simply refers to not paying one's taxes.

https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/scot-free.html

>>4199112

But most of its tax-exemption was fraudulent

That is the point

They were using their "tax-exempt fondation" for money laundering