tax authority
Noun
Meaning
tax authority (plural tax authorities)
A government organization responsible for collecting taxes.
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) discusses his virus stimulus package with Israel Tax Authority Director Aran Yaakov at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on July 15, 2020.
Through the recently resigned State Secretary of Finance Menno Snel, the government has apologized for the actions of the Tax Authority in the childcare allowance debacle on multiple occasions.
The government announced a reorganization of the Tax Authority and will place not one, but two State Secretaries over it.
The Tax Authority still denies that it was guilty of ethnic profiling, telling the broadcaster that during risk selection, it was only looked at whether someone was Dutch.
This affair revolves around the Tax Authority halting the childcare allowance of thousands of parents after they were wrongly labeled fraudsters.