Speak vehemently ringing tax HQ once, bearing temper (7)
I believe the answer is:
spirits
'temper' is the definition.
(thesaurus)
I don't understand the rest of the clue.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for spirits that I've seen before include "Shades" , "hard stuff?" , "eg Gin, whisky" , "Gin, vodka, rum etc" , "Morale" .)