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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
taxpayer
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
government/taxpayers'/public money
▪ More taxpayer’s money should be spent on the railways.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
average
▪ The combined changes make an average taxpayer two pounds sixty four pence a week better off.
▪ While some special interests get fat, the average taxpayer gets stuck cleaning up the manure and feeling pretty frail.
▪ R Block guide is from the company that caters to the average taxpayer.
basic
▪ But for the basic rate taxpayer, the problem of annual management charges eroding a diminished dividend yield remains.
▪ Each £100 investment will cost a higher rate taxpayer only £60, and a basic rate taxpayer £78.
▪ The situation could be particularly acute for basic rate taxpayers who invest in PEPs.
▪ The vast majority of PEPs in numerical terms are sold to basic rate taxpayers.
▪ For example, a basic rate taxpayer currently receives a net dividend distribution of £75 on his equity investment.
▪ For the higher rate taxpayer, the situation is more complex, but less serious than that facing the basic rate taxpayer.
▪ The actual cost to a basic-rate taxpayer is £3.90, and £3 for a higher-rate taxpayer.
high
▪ So for higher-rate taxpayers, 40 per cent of the premium charge is picked up by the Government.
▪ It is only the amount of relief granted that changes, with higher rate taxpayers now treated identically to everyone else.
▪ As with higher rate taxpayers, you will receive a tax demand for the amount owing.
▪ Each £100 investment will cost a higher rate taxpayer only £60, and a basic rate taxpayer £78.
▪ For higher-rate taxpayers this can be a good deal.
▪ For the higher rate taxpayer, the situation is more complex, but less serious than that facing the basic rate taxpayer.
▪ And it is of particular benefit to the higher-rate taxpayers that some accounts are tax-free.
▪ The actual cost to a basic-rate taxpayer is £3.90, and £3 for a higher-rate taxpayer.
local
▪ It will be reluctant to propose a law to make banks £500m richer at the expense of local taxpayers.
▪ And for this sort of performance, local taxpayers shell out roughly $ 360, 000 a year.
▪ They will be able to milk local taxpayers as they did with the rates, irrespective of the consequences.
▪ It has built one of the fastest growing and highest quality airports in the country with no subsidies from local taxpayers.
▪ We want to ensure that all local taxpayers reap these benefits.
▪ What it means is higher bills for local taxpayers.
■ NOUN
dollar
▪ These expenses, of course, are taxpayer dollars -- spent because of a myth.
expense
▪ For the retrial, there is no agreement; the brothers were defended at taxpayer expense.
▪ Although, the Civic Center is a public building, built at taxpayers expense, its plaza is not public.
money
▪ A dose of market reality for get-the-government-off-our-backs westerners could benefit the environment - and save the taxpayer money.
▪ It was Augustine who got the Clinton administration to use taxpayer money to subsidize a series of defense industry mergers.
▪ That program sets limits on campaign expenditures while supplying taxpayer money as matching funds to candidates.
▪ But what if a city builds a stadium with taxpayer money and waits for the World Series?
▪ Allow church-related drug-rehabilitation programs to receive taxpayer money.
▪ Or because taxpayer money is better spent on warehousing more dangerous and deadly criminals.
▪ But in recent testimony before a supervisors committee on anti-tobacco legislation, he called the legal efforts a waste of taxpayers money.
▪ Not the First Lady because all she was concerned about was cutting waste and saving taxpayer money.
rate
▪ But for the basic rate taxpayer, the problem of annual management charges eroding a diminished dividend yield remains.
▪ So for higher-#rate taxpayers, 40 per cent of the premium charge is picked up by the Government.
▪ Basic-#rate taxpayers receive £22 for every £78 of premiums.
▪ Higher rate taxpayers must claim back an additional Pounds 18 relief on their tax return.
▪ It is only the amount of relief granted that changes, with higher rate taxpayers now treated identically to everyone else.
▪ As with higher rate taxpayers, you will receive a tax demand for the amount owing.
▪ Each £100 investment will cost a higher rate taxpayer only £60, and a basic rate taxpayer £78.
▪ Yet top rate taxpayers today provide a bigger share of our tax revenues than they did before.
■ VERB
allow
▪ Why are they allowing the ratepayers and taxpayers of this country to go on throwing money down the drain?
▪ Funding any serious number of scholarships depends on the United States law that allows taxpayers to set their charitable donations against tax.
cost
▪ Non payment costs the taxpayer millions of pounds a year, so today roadside checkpoints were set up to stop drivers at random.
▪ Loan Association, a debacle that cost taxpayers upward of $ 2 billion.
▪ Smoking claims thousands of lives every year and treatment for the effects of the habit costs the taxpayer millions of pounds annually.
▪ This trip, he calculated, would cost the taxpayers slightly over a million dollars.
▪ His case could cost the taxpayer up to £20,000.
▪ Congressmen get free health care that costs the taxpayer $ 2, 794 for each member.
▪ Any further hold up to the Spittalburn stretch will cost the taxpayer a six-figure sum for each week's delay.
help
▪ The agency's Tax Tour 2000 is crisscrossing the state to help taxpayers in small communities fill out their forms.
lose
▪ Loan were sued by the federal government for lax oversight, which the government said caused taxpayers to lose $ 941 million.
pay
▪ As he said, two of those motorway crossings were paid for by the taxpayer.
provide
▪ University capital investment in 1992-93 - money provided by the taxpayer - will amount to £216 million.
receive
▪ Basic-rate taxpayers receive £22 for every £78 of premiums.
▪ As with higher rate taxpayers, you will receive a tax demand for the amount owing.
▪ For example, a basic rate taxpayer currently receives a net dividend distribution of £75 on his equity investment.
save
▪ Estimates of the amount of money saved by the taxpayer over the five-year period vary widely.
▪ A holiday time-off policy applies especially well to public agencies that are looking to save taxpayer funds.
▪ A dose of market reality for get-the-government-off-our-backs westerners could benefit the environment - and save the taxpayer money.
▪ Not the First Lady because all she was concerned about was cutting waste and saving taxpayer money.
▪ Altogether, the cuts would save taxpayers $ 548 billion over six years.
▪ Transport 2000 claims that reopening a rail link to Guisborough could save taxpayers millions and remove the need for a bypass.
▪ Every time we deter one person from becoming a criminal, we will save the taxpayers thousands of dollars.
use
▪ Neither has much relation to local services used by the taxpayer.
▪ It was Augustine who got the Clinton administration to use taxpayer money to subsidize a series of defense industry mergers.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Are you a higher rate taxpayer, or do you pay the basic rate?
▪ Bonus payments to top officials cost the taxpayer millions of pounds each year.
▪ I think these bureaucrats have a jolly good time at the taxpayer's expense.
▪ This defence project is simply a waste of taxpayers' money.
▪ Unemployment is up, and the poor old taxpayer has to foot the bill, as usual.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ About half the homeowner subsidy goes to taxpayers with incomes higher than $ 100, 000.
▪ And for this sort of performance, local taxpayers shell out roughly $ 360, 000 a year.
▪ Higher rate taxpayers must claim back an additional Pounds 18 relief on their tax return.
▪ It was Augustine who got the Clinton administration to use taxpayer money to subsidize a series of defense industry mergers.
▪ The majority of clients, it has to be said, were basic-rate taxpayers, educated perhaps, but too trusting.
▪ The Ministry says it has a duty to buy from overseas if that provides the best value for money for the taxpayer.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Taxpayer

Taxpayer \Tax"pay`er\, n. One who is assessed and pays a tax.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
taxpayer

also tax-payer, 1816, from tax (n.) + payer.

Wiktionary
taxpayer

n. 1 A person who is subject to, liable for, or pays tax as opposed to a nontaxpayer who is neither the subject nor the object of revenue laws 2 All of the people, collectively, in a population who pay tax (especially used in the context of the government financing something using the tax revenue)

WordNet
taxpayer

n. someone who pays taxes

Wikipedia
Taxpayer

A taxpayer is a person or organization (such as a company) subject to a tax on income. Taxpayers have an Identification Number, a reference number issued by a government to its citizens.

Taxpayer (building)

In real estate, urban planning, and especially firefighting, a taxpayer refers to a small one or two story building built to cover the owner's annual property tax assessed for owning a parcel of land. They are usually constructed with the hope that they can soon be redeveloped into a larger building capable of generating more revenue, or simply to hold a parcel of land along a new road or especially a streetcar line while waiting for value to appreciate. The building style was generally replaced with strip malls as the automobile became dominant in the mid 20th Century.

Usage examples of "taxpayer".

Computers could streamline the whole corruption process from start to finish, paradoxically benefiting taxpayers as well as dishonest builders.

In the beginning, the tax code skimmed only a small percentage off the incomes of the very top earners -- taxpayers rich enough that they had little incentive to avoid taxes.

During the gubernatorial campaign, Bush criticized the bullet train because of the immense risk to taxpayers.

There was still substantial taxpayer opposition to withholding, but the politicians eventually won even though they needed help from Donald Duck, among others, to pull off the victory.

Official Washington clearly understood that withholding was to be a tool to be used against taxpayers, not a program to make their taxpaying experience more pleasant.

Bob Jones University have over taxpayer funding for a pornographic display of the Virgin Mary?

In most other countries the propertyless were disqualified or plural votes were given to taxpayers, university graduates and fathers of families.

The program was very successful, with a much lower recidivism rate than the prison system, at far less cost to the taxpayers.

Remember that the Corps and the South Florida Water Management District were empowered by Congress to replumb and repurify the Evergladesan enormous engineering project to which every taxpayer in America is contributing.

Taxpayers cannot complain of arbitrary action or assert surprise in the retroactive apportionment of tax burdens to income when that is done by the legislature at the first opportunity after knowledge of the nature and amount of the income is available.

He is an unindicted and unconvicted felon as well as a citizen and a taxpayer.

Her Anglic was North American, almost-but-not-quite Taxpayer class, the voice of someone who carefully copied the upper-class accents on the Tri-V.

All the beach towns, plus Torrance, Hawthorne, and greater Walteria, were in on some grandiose pilot project bankrolled with inexhaustible taxpayer millions, appropriate chunks of which were finding their way to antidrug entities up and down every level of governance.

The ordinance also calls for independent audits, and allows taxpayers to sue if the park funds are misused or ripped off.

Taxpayers cannot complain of arbitrary action or assert surprise in the retroactive apportionment of tax burdens to income when that is done by the legislature at the first opportunity after knowledge of the nature and amount of the income is available.