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Obtained work that is having reduced tax and lose it (10)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

gotopieces

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'lose it' is the definition.
I don't know anything about this answer so I can't tell whether it can be defined by this definition.

'obtained work that is having reduced tax' is the wordplay.
'obtained' becomes 'got' ('get' can be a synonym of 'obtain').
'work' becomes 'op' (abbreviation for opus).
'that is' becomes 'ie' (short for Latin 'id est', 'that is').
'having' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'reduced tax' becomes 'ces' (I can't explain this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'got'+'op'+'ie'+'ces'='GOTOPIECES'

'and' is the link.

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(Another definition for gotopieces that I've seen is " collapse".)

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