Sentences with phrase «as a tax collector»

The municipality acts as the tax collector for other agencies listed below.

Now a new study from Cambridge University based on his writings suggests Saint Patrick was not brought to Ireland as a slave, as the legend has it, but that in fact he may actually have sold slaves his family owned to pay his way to Ireland - in order to avoid a job as a tax collector for the Roman empire.

His holiness took him to meeting with public sinners or the unpopular such as tax collectors, rather than to shunning them.

Instead, he worked as a tax collector for the Catholic Church and as a village medic.

As far as tax collectors in colonial Mexico went, Gonzalo de Salazar, often dubbed «El Gordo,» was a pinchpenny.

The researchers point to China's Mandarin system, a method of screening individuals for positions as tax collectors and other government administrators.

Though I do wish the game gave you the option to act as tax collector and shake down your residents for the bells needed to finish a stone bridge that costs more than my house.

The same release, though, sets a few questions, as the tax collector explains that virtual currencies (not just Bitcoin) function in the same manner as traditional currencies while, at the same time, treating it as property for tax purposes.

As a tax collector, he was a seen as a traitor to Israel.