taxpayer

UK/ˈtakspeɪə/US/ˈtakspeɪə/

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Other forms: taxpayers

A taxpayer is somebody who pays money to the state. The taxpayer foots the bill, taxpayer money, a higher-rate taxpayer.

The word is a rhetorical weapon as much as a description: saying the taxpayer will pay frames a spending decision as a cost to a person rather than to a government, which is exactly why politicians of every kind reach for it.

Definitions of taxpayer

1nountaxpayerSomebody who pays money to the state.C1
“The new stadium was built with taxpayers' money, so the public should be able to use it.”

taxpayer is a person.

Where it comes from

Tax plus payer. Tax comes from Latin taxare, to assess or appraise.

From tax + payer.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

taxpayer in the wild

A taxpayer is a person or organization (such as a company) subject to pay a tax.
Taxpayer
Modern taxpayers may have an identification number, a reference number issued by a government to citizens or firms.
Taxpayer
The National Taxpayers Union (NTU) is a taxpayer advocacy organization and taxpayers union in the United States, founded in 1977 by James Dale Davidson.
National Taxpayers Union
NTU says that it is the oldest taxpayer advocacy organization in the nation.
National Taxpayers Union
Taxpayer groups, taxpayers associations, or taxpayers unions, are formal nonprofit or informal advocacy groups that promote lower taxation, reductions in government spending, and limits to government debt.
Taxpayer groups

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From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.

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