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{{Quote|In a futuristic world, where biomech guns upload directly to the brain, everyone must pay their due. Everyone must be taxed.|Excerpt from TaxMan's Main Presentation Page.}}
'''''TaxMan''''' is a cancelled light gun shooter game that was being developed by [[SCEE Cambridge Studio]] in 1998. The game was going to be exclusive to the PlayStation and would have been played primarily using [[wikipedia:Namco|Namco]]'s [[wikipedia:GunCon|G-Con 45]], but with support for the [[wikipedia:PlayStation controller|PlayStation controller]], [[wikipedia:Dual Analog Controller|Dual Analog Controller]] and [[wikipedia:DualShock|DualShock]] as well. A disc containing the backup of TaxMan's game design website dated March 21, 1998 was made available on the Internet Archive in 2023.<ref name="backup">{{cite web|url=https://archive.org/details/taxman_20230810|title=Taxman Game Website Backup|site=Internet Archive|published=August 10, 2023|retrieved=August 10, 2023}}</ref>
==Gameplay==
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==Plot==
===Synopsis===
TaxMan takes place in a dystopian future and revolves around Jo Friend, a man who is unable to pay his taxes. He is chased down by a TaxMan, who presents Jo with the option of becoming a Taxman, or dying. Jo chooses to become a TaxMan, which means he must collect $1,000,000,000 in unpaid taxes to pay off his debt. He is given the TaxGun900, a biomechanical gun that feeds information directly into his brain. His parole agent updates the gun with lists of tax dodgers.<ref name="backup"/>

===Characters===
[[File:TaxMan-Taxer.png|thumb|right|Concept art of Jo Friend.|125px]]
*'''Jo Friend''', aka '''TaxMan''' - the protagonist of the first half of the game. He became a Taxman to pay off his tax debt.
*'''Babyralph''' - A boy courier from the West Side. He is executed along with Jo Friend by the militia at the end of the game's first half.
*'''Stripgirl''' - She works a crowded sleazy strip joint. After Jo Friend is killed, she picks up his gun and becomes the protagonist of the game's second half.
==Development==
TaxMan was influenced by the works of [[wikipedia:William Gibson|William Gibson]] and [[wikipedia:Iain Banks|Iain Banks]] and films such as [[wikipedia:Brazil (1985 film)|Brazil]], [[wikipedia:Akira (1988 film)|Akira]] and [[wikipedia:Seven (1995 film)|Se7en]].<ref name="backup"/> It was being worked on by [[Mike Philbin]], [[Alex Sulman]], [[Mitch Phillips]] and [[Julian Rex]].<ref name="backup"/>
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