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TAKSP-ay-uh/ˈtækspeɪə/

A taxpayer is a person or organisation that pays tax, often invoked as the public who fund a service: taxpayer money, value for the taxpayer. Citizen is wider; the Treasury (already in the dictionary) is the department; tax (everyday) is the charge. Do not swap a ribbon-cutting for a fire certificate.

Meaning

A person or organisation that pays tax, especially as a public-interest figure.

Examples

• “Taxpayer funding still requires a fire certificate, not only a ribbon-cutting.”
• “Citizen is wider. Voter is civic but not fiscal. Public money is the plain twin. A ceremony is comms. Statutory kit is a condition of opening. Cut the ribbon after the certificate, not instead of it.”

Good to know

Someone who pays tax. Wider: citizen. Close: public money. A photocall is not a certificate.

Near in meaning

tax

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