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Ladies on staff hiding hotel's way to dodge tax? (8)

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I believe the answer is:

loophole

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'way to dodge tax?' is the definition.

'ladies on staff hiding hotel's' is the wordplay.
'ladies' becomes 'loo' ('the ladies' is a type of loo or toilet).
'on staff' becomes 'pole' (I've seen this before. I am not sure about the 'on' bit.).
'hiding' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'hotel' becomes 'h' (phonetic alphabet: alpha, bravo, charlie etc.).
'pole' enclosing 'h' is 'phole'.
'loo'+'phole'='LOOPHOLE'

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(Other definitions for loophole that I've seen before include "escape mechanism" , "Get-out" , "Exploited legal ambiguity" , "Flaw or ambiguity in a rule" , "unplanned escape" .)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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