Tax collector

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- The tax just doubled. Wouldn't want an accident, would we? Fire is sometimes so hard to control.

The tax collector was a Fire Nation soldier during the last years of the War. He was employed in an Earth Kingdom mining village that had been occupied by the Fire Nation during the War. It was his duty to enforce taxation upon the citizens of the town for the benefit of the Fire Nation. His position granted him some measure of power, as seen by his commanding of a small crew of firebenders.

Role in the mining village
When Sokka, Katara, and Aang met with Haru and his mother inside her shop, the tax collector entered and demanded pay. Haru's mother aggressively asked him what he was doing there as she had already payed him that week. He arrogantly stated that the taxes had just doubled, threatening to burn down her business, generating fire between his hands in order to dissuade her from complaining. She paid him her alleged dues, yet he simply dropped the copper pieces, uninterested in the smaller currency of the Earth Kingdom.

Other duties
His duties stretched beyond the role of simple tax collection as well. Following Team Avatar's visit with Haru, the Fire Nation was tipped off that Haru had used earthbending to save an elder from a collapsing mine shaft just outside of town. Gathering his crew of firebenders, he visited Haru's home during the midnight hours, capturing him due to his earthbending potential to ship him off to a metal prison rig suspended over the ocean.