tax-gathering

Leaving on his tax-gathering mission, Chancellor Alistair Darling eschews the traditional red box ....

Budget 2009: Darling Leaves Downing St.... Dungeekin 2009

Leaving on his tax-gathering mission, Chancellor Alistair Darling eschews the traditional red box ....

Archive 2009-04-01 Dungeekin 2009

The Government puts legislation in place, and it's the Proles 'responsibility to blindly and unthinkingly follow those rules, not find ways to circumvent our tax-gathering .

Archive 2009-03-01 Dungeekin 2009

The Government puts legislation in place, and it's the Proles 'responsibility to blindly and unthinkingly follow those rules, not find ways to circumvent our tax-gathering .

Ferry Crossings Face New Tax Increase Dungeekin 2009

A report by the Commons public accounts committee says it has uncovered "specific and systemic" failures in Britain's tax-gathering agency while investigating deals with Vodaphone and Goldman Sachs which have attracted mass protests.

Inland Revenue hid 'sweetheart' tax deals for big business, MPs say 2011

Soon after this had happened the season of tax-gathering came round, and everyone who owned land was bound to present himself before the emperor.

The Violet Fairy Book 2003

The crash occurred when word came that Sulla had completely reorganized the finances of the Roman province of Asia, that there would be no tax-gathering bonanza after all.

Fortune's Favorites McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1993

The old empires were chiefly tax-gathering and military organizations, though they also maintained some important public works, such as roads and water supplies, and administered justice between persons from different communities or enjoy - ing a special status.

LIBERALISM JOHN PLAMENATZ 1968

On the other hand, there were among them some profligate characters who misappropriated the collected taxes, but the Government had really little right to complain, for the labour of tax-gathering was a _forced service_ without remuneration for expenses or loss of time incurred.

The Philippine Islands John Foreman

Under the government of Richelieu, and more particularly under that of Mazarin, the hard savings of Sully had been squandered, enormous sums had been granted to favorites, and the ever-increasing noble class had been exempted from taxation, an evil system of tax-gathering, called

A Political and Social History of Modern Europe V.1. Carlton J. H. Hayes 1923