单词 | taxpayer |
释义 | taxpayern. 1. One who pays a tax or the taxes generally; one who is liable to taxation; in U.S. including local rate-payers. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > tax > payment of taxes > [noun] > tax-payer stipendiary1661 taxpayer1816 1816 J. Kennedy in A. McKay Hist. Kilmarnock (1880) 229 Only 2,700 have a right of voting for members of Parliament;..197,300, although tax-payers, directly or indirectly, having no more right of voting than if they were an importation of slaves from Africa. 1853 Inaug. Address Mayor of Boston (U.S.) [Of] interest to every water taker and tax payer in the City. 1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. xix. 324 Some part..might, with advantage to the proprietor, to the taxpayer and to the State, be attracted into the Treasury. 1878 W. S. Jevons Polit. Econ. xvi. 130 To demand a tax when the taxpayer is likely to be able to pay it. 2. U.S. colloquial. A building just large enough to provide an income sufficient to meet the expenses it incurs; hence, any small building. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > types of building generally > [noun] > small building taxpayer1921 low-rise1965 1921 B. Matthews Ess. on Eng. vi. 134 A resplendent electric sign on top of a two-story tax-payer. 1950 N.Y. Times 28 Dec. (Late city ed.) 39/8 The three-story tax~payer at 288 Jackson Avenue in Jersey City, N.J...has been sold. Derivatives ˈtaxˌpaying n. and adj. (a) n. the payment of taxes; (b) adj. that pays taxes (or rates); subject to taxation. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > tax > payment of taxes > [noun] theolony1610 taxpaying1832 society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > tax > payment of taxes > [adjective] taxpaying1832 geldant1878 1832 Reg. Deb. Congress U.S. 4 Apr. 2390 As a representative of the tax paying people of the South, I must ask..what becomes of the excessive heavy amount of revenue? 1849 J. S. Mill in Westm. & Foreign Q. Rev. 51 44 A tax~paying or other property qualification. 1851 Inaug. Address Mayor of Boston (U.S.) The sale would cause discontent..to a very large number of tax~paying citizens. 1882 T. Hughes in Macmillan's Mag. XLV. 281 Doing his share of fighting, taxpaying, keeping the peace. 1894 Pop. Sci. Monthly Sept. 719/2 Formerly they were checked by the rage of the taxpaying classes. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < n.1816 |
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