noun
Other Word Forms
- taxpaying noun
Etymology
Origin of taxpayer
Example Sentences
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Fraud costs American taxpayers hundreds of billions of dollars a year.
The commission did not discuss whether the council members’ salaries and office budgets should remain the same, potentially increasing costs for taxpayers.
From Los Angeles Times
“Those taxpayers are left to defend their tax returns when the government suddenly appears unannounced, out of nowhere, asserting massive tax liabilities from decades earlier,” the filing said.
From MarketWatch
For some Medicaid populations, every dollar a state pays brings $9 from federal taxpayers.
The task force will “determine whether educational services rendered by VMI are duplicated at other institutions of higher education in the Commonwealth” and “evaluate the relative cost to the Commonwealth and taxpayers.”
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