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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
taxman
noun
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▪ He denies conspiracy to cheat the taxman.
▪ I dare say, but it will already have given you a pleasure that no taxman can touch.
▪ Instead, you can use your annual capital gains tax exemption-currently £7,200-to shelter the returns from the taxman.
▪ Last year the taxman pocketed 550 million from people who should not have been paying tax - or who paid too much.
▪ Macari denies conspiring to cheat the taxman out of hundreds of thousands of pounds.
▪ Tax Unfortunately, much as we should like to leave this out, the taxman never seems to retire!
▪ This arrangement was convenient for the taxman, but unfair.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
taxman

1803, from tax (n.) + man (n.).

Wiktionary
taxman

n. A generic, usually derogatory term for a tax collector.

WordNet
taxman

n. someone who collects taxes for the government [syn: tax collector, exciseman, collector of internal revenue, internal revenue agent]

Wikipedia
Taxman

"Taxman" is a song written by George Harrison and released as the opening track on the Beatles' 1966 album Revolver. Its lyrics attack the high levels of progressive tax taken by the British Labour government of Harold Wilson.

Taxman (film)

Taxman is a 1999 film directed by Avi Nesher and written by Nesher and Roger Berger. A tax investigator chasing a tax evader stumbles upon a series of bloody murders and gets wrapped up in an investigation with a rookie cop despite his boss' orders to stay out of the way.

Usage examples of "taxman".

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Digest condensed books, the TV series, paperback contracts - even though, at the end, the taxman had got in amongst his earnings.

I heard was the barton got the money, all of it, and killed the taxman and his two guards.

I was a child, there were parts of Saldaea that had not seen a taxman in five generations.

It gives me a fine feeling of patriotism and the opportunity to make a telling political statement, while at the same time I can pocket seventy-five million pounds in lovely hard cash that the taxman will never see.

We take a duplicate of what they’re supposed to give the taxmen when they come next spring.

When the taxmen arrived in the spring, they would come armed with the truth, and the guilty parties would find themselves paying a stiff penalty.

We take a duplicate of what they're supposed to give the taxmen when they come next spring.

And these people aren't just mixed-up berks and babbling bagladies: they are haunted tinnitic taxmen, bug-eyed barristers and smart-bombed bureaucrats.

As long as he kept up the payments, they were unlikely to go squealing to the taxmen, who were their only contact with the central government.