taxpayer
noun
a person who pays a tax or is subject to taxation.
taxpayers
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pluralof taxpayer.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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The spokesperson said Defra would use "all available avenues to recover the proceeds of Chowdhury's offending on behalf of taxpayers".
From BBC ● Nov. 9, 2026
It said every additional year of delay cost taxpayers £420m, while its chairman warned the Palace could be left vulnerable to a devastating fire like that which engulfed the Notre Dame.
From BBC ● Nov. 7, 2026
Changes to the estate-and-gift tax exclusion amount, meanwhile, could save some taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026
The program would not be funded by taxpayers but instead by the interest charged to borrowers on their down-payment loans, also referred to as second mortgages.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2026
And more than 15 percent will go just to the top 0.1 percent, those 145,000 taxpayers.
From "Class Matters" by The New York Times
