Tax collector

A tax collector or a taxman is a person who collects taxes.

A tax collector at work – from an illustration by Henry Holiday in Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark (1876).

Quotes

• There is one difference between a tax collector and a taxidermist — the taxidermist leaves the hide.
  • Mortimer Caplin, American bureaucrat, Director of the IRS. Time magazine, (Feb. 1, 1963)

• If you drive a car, I'll tax the street,
  If you try to sit, I'll tax your seat,
  If you get too cold, I'll tax the heat,
  If you take a walk, I'll tax your feet.
  Taxman.
  ‘Cos I'm the Taxman,
  Yeah, I'm the Taxman.
  • Written by George Harrison, Taxman, Revolver (1966)

• My husband is the tax collector of the sea,
  Nindara is the tax collector of the sea.
  • Nanshe, in A subscript (balbale) to Nanshe (Nanshe B), late 3rd millennium BCE, at The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature.