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• n  someone who collects taxes for the government

• But with Barack Obama promising to raise rates to French-like levels, this taxman-cometh policy could turn Americans into the world's foremost fiscal prisoners.
• Corporate America has a new Santa Claus the taxman.
• The German taxman will likely get a big chunk of what is left.

• tax collector
• exciseman
• collector of internal revenue
• internal revenue agent

News & Articles

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• Time to Pay-dro: Espada gets 5 years in prison
  It’s the end of the line for Pedro Espada Jr. The crooked state senator who admitted looted his non-profit and dodging the taxman was sentenced today to five years in prison. Espada, 59, was remanded immediately after the ruling by Brooklyn Judge Frederic Block. “There’s no question that...
  June 14, 2013 - New York Post

Quotes

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• José Ángel Gurría in Channel News Asia
  For decades it has been possible for taxpayers to hide income and assets from the taxman by abusing bank secrecy and other impediments to information exchange,Gurria said in Monday's statement. "What these developments show is that this...
• John Key in Stuff.co.nz
  We've listened to businesses who've pointed out that the taxman's interest rate is out of whack with market interest rates,Key said. "We agree that these rates must come down. This is not a time for excessive penalties from the taxman. We...
• Joe Dolan in Belfast Telegraph
  It wasn'ta matter of us trying to fiddle the taxman. This has happened thousands of people in Ireland. It was on the tours,said Mr Dolan.\[Alex McGreavey\]"I am not blaming the banks. I am not blaming the government. I am not blaming...