The Internal Revenue Service has a comprehensive strategy in place to combat abusive tax shelters and transactions. This strategy includes guidance on abusive transactions, regulations governing tax shelters, a hotline for taxpayers to use to report abusive technical transactions, and enforcement activity against abusive tax shelter promoters and investors.

It probably does some damage to the dog- abusive

Offshore tax havens are an example of abusive tax shelters. For more information about abusive tax shelters, visit http://www.irs.gov/individuals/content/0,,id=97749,00.html

A seek shelter could be a place where abused women seek shelter away from their abusive husbands/boyfriends.

A tax shelter is legal to use as long as it is your shelter and you have documents proving this. You can use this shelter for natural diasters which they are usually popular for.