0 the government department that is responsible for collecting taxes
1 a way of referring to the government department that is responsible for collecting taxes:
2 someone whose job is to collect taxes:
This was an interesting gathering of headmasters, journalists, taxmen, IT men, civil servants, and wine buyers.
All the villagers' work at the fete, and more, went to the taxman.
A decimator was someone who took things away from you, but not every tenth like the taxman who took the tithes.
The wealth that he creates—or what is left of it by the taxman—is private wealth, but it is wealth that benefits the whole community.
In other words, we seek to ensure that money paid to a charity goes to the charity and not to the taxman.
Their interests are not in the well-being of the island but the health of their balance sheets and escape from the taxman.
Because of so many grants and subsidies, farmers do not pay a very high proportion of income to the taxman.
That would spare lower-income pensioners the need to communicate with the taxman and all the form filling that that entails.
Why pay money to the taxman when you can utilise the same money (without any further capital outlay) to make good quality property investments instead?
