black moneyn.

1468 in Rec. Parl. Scotl. to 1707 (2007) 1468/1/7 That in tyme tocum thare be tane in payment of the blak mone bot xij d. in the pund.

1527 E. Lee in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1846) 3rd Ser. II. 94 Doble ducats, single ducats,..stufers, and black monaye.

1642 T. Fuller Holy State iv. v. 264 Receiving black money from cheatours, he payes them in good silver.

1684 in J. D. Marwick Extracts Rec. Burgh Glasgow (1905) III. 359 The maister of wark is to receive the black money therof.

1727 in W. Hector Judicial Rec. Renfrewshire (1876) 134 The Importing of Black Money and the venting or out-putting thereof being a species of falsehood by law severely punishable.

1876 W. Hector Sel. Judicial Rec. Renfrewshire 133 A century and a half ago Scotland was inundated with ‘Black Money’, or counterfeit Irish and Scots halfpence, chiefly, it was supposed, imported from Ireland.

1883 J. Hutchison Pract. Banking II. x. 520 Copper money was introduced into Scotland about a century and a half earlier than in England, and was generally designated ‘black money’.

1939 Harper's Mag. Feb. 297/1 There are seven neutral countries surrounding Germany, excluding Switzerland where ‘black money’ is worthless.

1970 Atlantic July 65 Lansky's couriers take the Mafia's ‘black money’—profits from illegal activities—to secret bank accounts in Switzerland.

1994 Guardian 21 Apr. 14/3 He was personally committed to keeping Britain as free of ‘black money’—the proceeds of crime, drug-smuggling and terrorism—as possible.

2008 J. van Dijk World of Crime vii. 161 Organized-crime groups are also known to engage in conspicuous consumption financed with black money and to invest in shadow economies.

1965 Times of India 7 July 6/4 The Government should find ways of unearthing ‘black’ money without humiliating the owner.

1972 Guardian 19 Sept. 13/7 Black money is a vast parallel economy of billions of rupees in cash transactions that never reach the tax collector.

1977 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 23 June 16/4 Erlich has also promised an amnesty for those who reveal their black money and pay a tax on it.

1981 S. Rushdie Midnight's Children iii. 418 All sorts of things happen during an Emergency: trains run on time, black-money hoarders are frightened into paying taxes.

2001 N.Y. Times 11 Feb. i. 3/3 Bollywood has essentially been financed all these 50 to 60 years with black money—money that has not been disclosed to income tax authorities.