tax collector

  • 1tax collector — UK US noun [C] GOVERNMENT, TAX ► someone whose job is to collect taxes for the government. The term is often used to refer to the tax authorities: »The company spent a lot of energy trying to outrun the tax collector …

    Financial and business terms

  • 2tax collector — index assessor Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …

    Law dictionary

  • 3Tax collector — A tax collector at work – from an illustration by Henry Holiday in Lewis Carroll s The Hunting of the Snark (1876). A tax collector is a person who collects unpaid taxes from other people or corporations. Tax collectors are often portrayed in… …

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  • 4tax collector — noun someone who collects taxes for the government • Syn: ↑taxman, ↑exciseman, ↑collector of internal revenue, ↑internal revenue agent • Hypernyms: ↑bureaucrat, ↑administrative official * * * …

    Useful english dictionary

  • 5tax collector — noun One who has the responsibility for collecting taxes. After the assessment has been made the file passes to the tax collector. Syn: taxman …

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  • 6tax collector — tax col.lector n someone who works for the government and makes sure that people pay their taxes …

    Dictionary of contemporary English

  • 7tax collector — Synonyms and related words: Internal Revenue Service, accumulator, assessor, bill collector, collection agent, collector, connoisseur, customhouse, customs, douanier, dunner, exciseman, farmer, gatherer, magpie, miser, pack rat, publican,… …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 8tax collector — one who takes tax payments, one who takes taxes …

    English contemporary dictionary

  • 9tax collector — A public officer, elected or appointed, acting in a ministerial capacity in the collection of taxes. 51 Am J1st Tax § 996 …

    Ballentine's law dictionary

  • 10tax collector — /ˈtæks kəlɛktə/ (say taks kuhlektuh) noun an official who collects taxes …