One who takes or collects taxes; a levier or receiver of taxes.
1610. Healey, St. Aug. Citie of God, II. xix. 85. Even the very soldiers and taxe-takers themselves would heare and regard well.
1656. Earl Monm., trans. Boccalini’s Advts. fr. Parnass., II. lxxxii. (1674), 234. Their grievances were encreased by the greedy Tax takers.
1832. Ht. Martineau, Each & All, iii. 43. We must reach the extreme … of having our whole produce in the hands of land-owners and tax-takers.
1860. Dickens, Lett. (1880), II. 117. The tax-taker was the authority for the wretched creature’s impoverishment.
