Acclaim for political outsiders over tax inspections (8)
I believe the answer is:
plaudits
'acclaim' is the definition.
(I know that acclaim can be written as plaudits)
'political outsiders over tax inspections' is the wordplay.
'outsiders' means to remove the middle letters (only the letters on the outside of the word remain).
'over tax inspections' becomes 'audits' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'political' with its centre taken out is 'pl'.
'pl'+'audits'='PLAUDITS'
'for' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for plaudits that I've seen before include "Acclamations" , "Enthusiastic approval" , "Expressions of praise" , "Accolades" , "Acts of acclaim" .)