Legal Definition of Tax Collector

Tax collectors, also called tax collectors, are often mentioned in the Bible (mainly in the New Testament). They were vilified by the Jews in Jesus` time for their perceived greed and collaboration with the Roman occupiers. Tax collectors amassed personal wealth by demanding higher tax payments than Rome had levied and keeping the difference. [1] They worked for tax farmers. In Luke`s gospel, Jesus sympathizes with the tax collector Zacchaeus and provokes outrage in the crowd that Jesus would rather be a sinner`s guest than a more respectable or “righteous” person. Matthew, the apostle of the New Testament, was a tax collector. [2] A tax collector (also called a tax collector) is a person who collects unpaid taxes from other persons or corporations. The term could also apply to those who check tax returns. Tax collectors are often portrayed as evil and share a stereotype similar to that of lawyers in the modern world. [ref. needed] National tax collection agencies. including the Canada Revenue Agency, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) in the United States, HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) in the United Kingdom (merged with Inland Revenue and Her Majesty`s Customs and Excise), Tax Administration Service (Spanish: Servicio de Administración Tributaria, SAT) in Mexico, the Australian Taxation Office, the Federal Public Finance Department (French: SPF Finances) in Belgium and the Direction Générale des Finances Publiques (DGFiP) in France.

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