a. [f. TAX sb.1 + -LESS.) Free from taxes or taxation; untaxed.
1615. Sylvester, Job Triumphant, III. 555. If Tithe-lesse, Taxe-lesse, Wage-lesse, Right-lesse, I Have eat the Crop, or caused the Owners dye.
1845. Ld. Campbell, Chancellors (1857), IV. lxxviii. 61. They depicted the happy tranquil, taxless times which the more aged might still remember.
1909. Daily Chron., 3 Sept., 4/4. Compelled to fly the Channel, and seek some taxless shore.
Hence Taxlessly adv., without taxation.
1894. J. S. Morton, in Forum (U.S.), June, 389. The most efficacious remedy is, to give the farmers of the United States the right to taxlessly buy in the markets of all the civilized world wherein they are compelled to sell.