taxpayer
noun
a person who pays a tax or is subject to taxation.
Example Sentences
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This market-driven renewal filled vacant lots and derelict sites, reduced blight, converted nonperforming parcels into taxpaying assets and created billions of dollars in new wealth for existing homeowners, with little evidence of widespread displacement.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 2026
"I don't feel that's right. I can't live my life like that. I work full time. I contribute. I'm a taxpaying citizen. I should have the same rights as everybody else."
From BBC ● Dec. 25, 2025
But what will happen to this 90-year-old model as robots and artificial intelligence reduce the demand for taxpaying human workers?
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 20, 2025
“I don’t appreciate the way they treat guys like me, especially after we’ve been proven to be rehabilitated and become taxpaying citizens. I put millions of dollars back into the community of Nashville.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 10, 2023
She described also the efforts made to obtain suffrage for women in the new constitution of Louisiana the preceding year, which resulted in securing the franchise for taxpaying women on all matters submitted to taxpayers.
From The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV by Ida Husted Harper
