off the books

Lately, they'd found a source of steady income by taking loans off the books of banks and packaging them up as trust products.

"Most of it comes from off-the-books financing, " he said.

Wen vowed to crack down on and ban illegal income, regulate off-the-books income, and resolutely reverse the widening income gap.

The largest of these off-the-books obligations have been incurred by local governments and state banks.

They had officially signed papers saying they weren't coming back and the company wanted the house off the books.

EXAMPLE: The dishonest business executive kept many of his deals off the books, but eventually the tax officials discovered his deceptions.

But with so much action off the books, the full impact of government taxing and spending is harder to predict.

The only way this is going to work is via freelancer, off the books.

Commercial bribery main form of off-the-books covert payments kickbacks.

To sidestep that prohibition, municipalities across the country have created off-the-books entities to do the borrowing.

He did handyman work off the books. Got him a key.

Those transactions are now occurring off the books of business and government alike.

But keeping PFI spending off the books lends weight to charges of official dishonesty.

But by using off-the-books investment companies, cities have largely eluded Beijing's rules.

But instead of buying bad mortgages off the books of crippled banks, the EFSF would buy bad sovereign paper.

But do deprived towns see far more off-the-books wheeling-dealing?

There's an underground economy, of course: part-time work and jobs off the books.

China isn't hiding anyfuture liability for pensions or retiree health care off the books.

Usually I'd have to blow the dust off the books.

The clampdown on loans made off the books or outside the banking system remains in force.

Off the books "zombie debt" is a problem to watch in China, Paal warned.

Could you drop off the books at the library?

Registration ledger and general ledger (except cash and bank off-the-books)

keep sb. 's name off the books