“Taxman” was only the sixth song by George Harrison that appeared on a Beatles album. It was released as the opening track on Revolver. It’s a powerful piece of guitar rock with a stomping beat and contains a guitar solo by Paul McCartney that dives into psychedelic rock.

Written from the perspective of the “Taxman,” the song sarcastically attacks the high levels of progressive tax taken by the British Labour government of Harold Wilson. The Beatles' accountant Harry Pinsker recalled the Fab Four’s frustration with that:

Early on, the press called them millionaires. I had to clarify to them that their millions were earnings, not assets, and they needed to set aside a lot of those earnings for tax. They were never happy with that – that’s why George wrote Taxman. They’d been poor boys, who’d worked hard and made money, and now someone was trying to take it away.