Taxpayer
noun
Someone who pays taxes to the government.
As a taxpayer, he has the right to know where his money is being spent.
Often appears as...
- taxpayer money
- taxpayer dollars
noun
An entity, like a company or organization, that pays taxes.
The new law will impact all taxpayers, including small and big businesses.
Often appears as...
- corporate taxpayer
- individual taxpayer
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Formal
Technical
noun
Someone who pays taxes to the government.
As a taxpayer, he has the right to know where his money is being spent.
Often appears as...
- taxpayer money
- taxpayer dollars
noun
An entity, like a company or organization, that pays taxes.
The new law will impact all taxpayers, including small and big businesses.
Often appears as...
- corporate taxpayer
- individual taxpayer
Usage tips
Formal
Technical
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Public Services
Taxpayer funds contribute to public services like schools and roads.
The library was built with taxpayer money for everyone's benefit.
Pro Tip 2/3Government Accountability
Taxpayers often demand transparency about government spending.
As taxpayers, we should hold officials accountable for their use of public funds.
Pro Tip 3/3Tax Resistance
Some taxpayers refuse to pay taxes to protest government actions.
Historically, tax resisters have withheld taxpayer dollars to oppose wars.
Pro Tip 1/3Public Services
Taxpayer funds contribute to public services like schools and roads.
The library was built with taxpayer money for everyone's benefit.
Pro Tip 2/3Government Accountability
Taxpayers often demand transparency about government spending.
As taxpayers, we should hold officials accountable for their use of public funds.
Pro Tip 3/3Tax Resistance
Some taxpayers refuse to pay taxes to protest government actions.
Historically, tax resisters have withheld taxpayer dollars to oppose wars.
Pro Tip 1/3Public Services
Taxpayer funds contribute to public services like schools and roads.
The library was built with taxpayer money for everyone's benefit.
Pro Tip 2/3Government Accountability
Taxpayers often demand transparency about government spending.
As taxpayers, we should hold officials accountable for their use of public funds.
Pro Tip 3/3Tax Resistance
Some taxpayers refuse to pay taxes to protest government actions.
Historically, tax resisters have withheld taxpayer dollars to oppose wars.
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Jeff Smith: Lessons in...
For the most part, everyone was just trying to survive. It's a lot harder than you might think. Contrary to what most people think, people don't pay, taxpayers don't pay, for your life when you're in prison. You've got to pay for your own life. You've got to pay for your soap, your deodorant, toothbrush, toothpaste, all of it.
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Tim Berners-Lee: The...
Raw data now! Practice that. It's important because you have no idea the number of excuses people come up with to hang onto their data and not give it to you, even though you've paid for it as a taxpayer. And it's not just America. It's all over the world. And it's not just governments, of course -- it's enterprises as well.
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Lessons from death row...
Instead, let me talk about a couple of modes of intervention that we can all help accomplish, because they are modes of intervention that will come about when legislators and policymakers, when taxpayers and citizens, agree that that's what we ought to be doing and that's how we ought to be spending our money.
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Fossil fuel companies...
about the importance of carbon dioxide disposal. But they're still talking about it as if it's to be paid for by philanthropy or tax breaks. But why should foundations or the taxpayer pay to clean up after a still-profitable industry? No. We can decarbonize fossil fuels.
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Lessons from death row...
lawyers and judges instead let me talk about a couple of modes of intervention that we can all help accomplish because they are modes of intervention that will come about when legislators and policymakers when taxpayers and citizens agree that that's what we ought to be
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3 stories of local...
Chicago Brenda palms farmer was hired to help ex-convicts reenter society and keep them from going back into prison currently taxpayers spent about sixty thousand dollars per year sending a person to jail we know that two-thirds of them are going to go back I find it
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How to build a greener,...
Teresa outfits who need US taxpayers money to save them you know markets get tough whatever happened this concept you know in economics we had this concept that markets are supposed to punish the missed allocation of capital what happened to that product I want
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Beware, fellow...
like food stamps and medical assistance and rent assistance that those workers need. We reminded them that low-wage workers make terrible taxpayers, and that when you raise the minimum wage for all businesses, all businesses benefit
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Solar System Exploration:...
taxpayer investment so feeding that innovation food chain I think is very important one specific example I went to grad school at Stanford a few years before me there was this guy who was on he was funded through a NASA fellowship
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Stephanie Kelton: The...
It's just another way of saying that everything must be paid for and that the taxpayer is ultimately on the hook for whatever the government spends. It sounds worrying.
Video examples
Jeff Smith: Lessons in...
For the most part, everyone was just trying to survive. It's a lot harder than you might think. Contrary to what most people think, people don't pay, taxpayers don't pay, for your life when you're in prison. You've got to pay for your own life. You've got to pay for your soap, your deodorant, toothbrush, toothpaste, all of it.
Video examples
Tim Berners-Lee: The...
Raw data now! Practice that. It's important because you have no idea the number of excuses people come up with to hang onto their data and not give it to you, even though you've paid for it as a taxpayer. And it's not just America. It's all over the world. And it's not just governments, of course -- it's enterprises as well.
Video examples
Lessons from death row...
Instead, let me talk about a couple of modes of intervention that we can all help accomplish, because they are modes of intervention that will come about when legislators and policymakers, when taxpayers and citizens, agree that that's what we ought to be doing and that's how we ought to be spending our money.
Video examples
Fossil fuel companies...
about the importance of carbon dioxide disposal. But they're still talking about it as if it's to be paid for by philanthropy or tax breaks. But why should foundations or the taxpayer pay to clean up after a still-profitable industry? No. We can decarbonize fossil fuels.
Video examples
Lessons from death row...
lawyers and judges instead let me talk about a couple of modes of intervention that we can all help accomplish because they are modes of intervention that will come about when legislators and policymakers when taxpayers and citizens agree that that's what we ought to be
Video examples
3 stories of local...
Chicago Brenda palms farmer was hired to help ex-convicts reenter society and keep them from going back into prison currently taxpayers spent about sixty thousand dollars per year sending a person to jail we know that two-thirds of them are going to go back I find it
Video examples
How to build a greener,...
Teresa outfits who need US taxpayers money to save them you know markets get tough whatever happened this concept you know in economics we had this concept that markets are supposed to punish the missed allocation of capital what happened to that product I want
Video examples
Beware, fellow...
like food stamps and medical assistance and rent assistance that those workers need. We reminded them that low-wage workers make terrible taxpayers, and that when you raise the minimum wage for all businesses, all businesses benefit
Video examples
Solar System Exploration:...
taxpayer investment so feeding that innovation food chain I think is very important one specific example I went to grad school at Stanford a few years before me there was this guy who was on he was funded through a NASA fellowship
Video examples
Stephanie Kelton: The...
It's just another way of saying that everything must be paid for and that the taxpayer is ultimately on the hook for whatever the government spends. It sounds worrying.
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Quote examples
Eric Greitens
American Politician
I became a conservative because I believe that caring for people means more than just spending taxpayer money; it means delivering results. It means respecting and challenging our citizens, telling them what they need to hear, not simply what they want to hear.
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Estelle Morris
English Politician
It is a very unusual sector and the one thing I would ask of them is to understand that for most of them one-third of their films are being financed by the taxpayer and that carries huge accountability and responsibility.
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George Sutherland
English Judge
The legal right of a taxpayer to decrease the amount of what otherwise would be his taxes, or altogether avoid them, by means which the law permits, cannot be doubted.
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Israel Zangwill
English Novelist
In how many lives does love really play a dominant part? The average taxpayer is no more capable of a 'grand passion' than of a grand opera.
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Maxime Bernier
Canadian Businessman
I aim to create a federal government which respects the constitution, which respects taxpayers.
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Henry Paulson
American Public Servant
I don't take lightly ever putting the taxpayer on the line to support an institution.
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Grover Norquist
American Politician
The American taxpayers are a powerful force. They don't want their taxes raised.
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Robert Reich
American Economist
Public institutions are supported by all taxpayers and are available to all.
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Jesse White
My administration is committed to continue using taxpayer dollars wisely.
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Rob Ford
Canadian Politician
I cannot support taxing the taxpayer.
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Eric Greitens
American Politician
I became a conservative because I believe that caring for people means more than just spending taxpayer money; it means delivering results. It means respecting and challenging our citizens, telling them what they need to hear, not simply what they want to hear.
Quote examples
Estelle Morris
English Politician
It is a very unusual sector and the one thing I would ask of them is to understand that for most of them one-third of their films are being financed by the taxpayer and that carries huge accountability and responsibility.
Quote examples
George Sutherland
English Judge
The legal right of a taxpayer to decrease the amount of what otherwise would be his taxes, or altogether avoid them, by means which the law permits, cannot be doubted.
Quote examples
Israel Zangwill
English Novelist
In how many lives does love really play a dominant part? The average taxpayer is no more capable of a 'grand passion' than of a grand opera.
Quote examples
Maxime Bernier
Canadian Businessman
I aim to create a federal government which respects the constitution, which respects taxpayers.
Quote examples
Henry Paulson
American Public Servant
I don't take lightly ever putting the taxpayer on the line to support an institution.
Quote examples
Grover Norquist
American Politician
The American taxpayers are a powerful force. They don't want their taxes raised.
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Robert Reich
American Economist
Public institutions are supported by all taxpayers and are available to all.
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Jesse White
My administration is committed to continue using taxpayer dollars wisely.
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Rob Ford
Canadian Politician
I cannot support taxing the taxpayer.
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