"bottom of the harbour" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "From the metaphor of money hidden in an inaccessible place. Also, allegedly, incriminating records were in some cases disposed of by dumping them in Sydney Harbour.",
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "name": "Taxation",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1982 June 5, Sydney Morning Herald, page 13",
          "text": "The 'bottom of the harbour' scheme was so named because a company once stripped of its assets, was dumped and, like a body in a cement suit, sank never to be seen again.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1983, Rob Chalmers, Jenny Hutchison, Don Whitington, Inside Canberra: A Guide to Australian Federal Politics, page 121",
          "text": "John Howard argued that he was a relatively new Treasurer in 1978 when he was first given some advice from Treasury officials concerning the bottom-of-the-harbour tax schemes.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1985, Australian House of Representatives, House of Representatives weekly Hansard, number 18, page 2021",
          "text": "Finally, the Leader of the Opposition was caught out for a third time by the 1984 report of the bottom of the harbour Special Prosecutor, Robert Gyles, who sheeted home the responsibility in this way.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2010, John Howard, Lazarus Rising: A Personal and Political Autobiography, unnumbered page",
          "text": "The bottom-of-the-harbour scheme involved a practice which effectively denuded a company of any assets, meaning it was unable to meet its tax obligations.[…]With bottom-of-the-harbour schemes the legal obligation remained, but the company had no assets with which to meet the obligation.",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A tax avoidance scheme from the 1970s."
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Australia, attributive) A tax avoidance scheme from the 1970s."
      ],
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        {
          "word": "bottom-of-the-harbour"
        }
      ],
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        "Australia",
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      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "Bottom of the harbour tax avoidance"
      ]
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  "etymology_text": "From the metaphor of money hidden in an inaccessible place. Also, allegedly, incriminating records were in some cases disposed of by dumping them in Sydney Harbour.",
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        "English terms with quotations",
        "English uncountable nouns",
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        {
          "ref": "1982 June 5, Sydney Morning Herald, page 13",
          "text": "The 'bottom of the harbour' scheme was so named because a company once stripped of its assets, was dumped and, like a body in a cement suit, sank never to be seen again.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1983, Rob Chalmers, Jenny Hutchison, Don Whitington, Inside Canberra: A Guide to Australian Federal Politics, page 121",
          "text": "John Howard argued that he was a relatively new Treasurer in 1978 when he was first given some advice from Treasury officials concerning the bottom-of-the-harbour tax schemes.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1985, Australian House of Representatives, House of Representatives weekly Hansard, number 18, page 2021",
          "text": "Finally, the Leader of the Opposition was caught out for a third time by the 1984 report of the bottom of the harbour Special Prosecutor, Robert Gyles, who sheeted home the responsibility in this way.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2010, John Howard, Lazarus Rising: A Personal and Political Autobiography, unnumbered page",
          "text": "The bottom-of-the-harbour scheme involved a practice which effectively denuded a company of any assets, meaning it was unable to meet its tax obligations.[…]With bottom-of-the-harbour schemes the legal obligation remained, but the company had no assets with which to meet the obligation.",
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        }
      ],
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        "A tax avoidance scheme from the 1970s."
      ],
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        ]
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        "(Australia, attributive) A tax avoidance scheme from the 1970s."
      ],
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      ]
    }
  ],
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