1838 E. Elliott in Apr. 253/2 The food-tax would not exist another week.
1906 13 Feb. 4/2 There was something for the Food-taxers also, for..the matter of food-taxes is ‘not a question of principle’.
1991 T. Pakenham xxxii. 598 There were reports of troops raiding villages nearby, to punish them for failing to pay the ‘food tax’—in other words, to do forced labour to provide food for the State.