taxpayertax‧pay‧er /ˈtæksˌpeɪə $ -ər/ ●○○ noun [countable] 
The proposal could cost the taxpayer (=all ordinary people who pay tax) another £18m a year.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- 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.
- 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.
Longman Language Activatormoney that you pay to the government
money that you have to pay to the government, especially from the money you earn or as an additional payment when you buy something: · Although the tax on cigarettes has doubled in the past two years, sales are still going up.· proposals for an increase in taxes to pay for medical caretax on: · Consumers are angry that the tax on petrol has gone up yet again.cut/reduce tax: · The Republicans promised to reduce taxes before the last election.· The Chancellor said he would cut income tax by 2 pence in the pound.income tax (=tax that you pay according to how much money you earn): · He failed to report and pay income tax on a portion of his income.sales tax (=tax you pay on things that you buy): · Sales tax in the state is 8%.after tax (=after you have paid income tax): · I made over $600 a week, which was around $450 after tax.tax avoidance/evasion (=when someone tries to avoid paying tax, especially income tax): · He pleaded guilty to charges of fraud and tax evasion.
a tax you pay on something you buy, especially goods you have bought in another country: · You have to pay a duty on the value of goods worth over $500 that you bring into the country.customs duty: · The customs duty on luxury cars went up last month.
a tax on goods coming into a country or going out of a country: · The aim of the organization is to reduce tariffs and promote free trade.
someone who pays tax: · Are you a higher rate taxpayer, or do you pay the basic rate?taxpayers' money (=money the government gets from taxes): · This defence project is simply a waste of taxpayers' money.the taxpayer (=all the people in a country who pay tax): · Bonus payments to top officials cost the taxpayer millions of pounds each year.· Unemployment is up, and the poor old taxpayer has to foot the bill, as usual.· I think these bureaucrats have a jolly good time at the taxpayer's expense.
WORD SETSad valorem tax, allowance, nounanti-dumping, adjectivebasic rate, bonded factory, bonded warehouse, nounbusiness gift, cabinet bid, capital allowance, capital gain, capital gains tax, nouncapital levy, nouncapitation, nouncarryback, nouncarryforward, nouncar tax, nouncash shell, nouncertificate of tax deducted, nounCGT, chargeable, adjectiveCTT, death duties, noundeclare, verbdeficiency notice, delinquent tax certificate, depreciable life, direct tax, noundutiable, adjectiveduty, nounduty-free, adjectiveduty-free, nounenrolled agent, estate tax, nounexcise, nounexemption, nounfiscal year, nounflat-rate, adjectivefree pay, imputed value, income tax, nounincome tax deduction, indirect tax, nouninheritance tax, nouninspector of taxes, nounInternal Revenue Service, nouninvestment tax credit, levy, verblevy, nounmarginal rate, net income, net interest, NIC, nounovertax, verbpay and file, nounpayroll tax, nounpersonal allowance, nounpoll tax, nounpollution credit, port of registry, progressive tax, nounratable, adjectiveratepayer, nounrebate, nounregressive tax, nounrepayment supplement, return, nounrevenue, nounsales tax, nounshell company, short-term gain, stamp, nounstamp duty, nounstandard deduction, surtax, nountariff, nountaxable income, taxation, nountax avoidance, nountax bracket, nountax break, nountax credit, tax-deductible, adjectivetax-deferred, adjectivetax disc, nountax dodge, nountax evasion, nountax exempt, adjectivetax-exempt income, tax exile, nountax haven, nountax inspector, nountaxman, nountaxpayer, nountax relief, nountax return, nountax shelter, nountax year, nountithe, noununderreport, verbunreported income, user fee, nounvalue-added tax, nounVAT, nounwithholding tax, nounzero-rated, adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY The proposal could cost the taxpayer (=all ordinary people who pay tax) another £18m a year.COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a person that pays tax: The proposal could cost the taxpayer (=all ordinary people who pay tax) another £18m a year.· More taxpayer’s money should be spent on the railways.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE· 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.
· 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.
· 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.
· 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· These expenses, of course, are taxpayer dollars -- spent because of a myth.
· 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.
· 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.
· 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· 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.
· 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.
· The agency's Tax Tour 2000 is crisscrossing the state to help taxpayers in small communities fill out their forms.
· Loan were sued by the federal government for lax oversight, which the government said caused taxpayers to lose $ 941 million.
· As he said, two of those motorway crossings were paid for by the taxpayer.
· University capital investment in 1992-93 - money provided by the taxpayer - will amount to £216 million.
· 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.
· 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.
· 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.
The proposal could cost the taxpayer (=all ordinary people who pay tax) another £18m a year.