Taxpayer meaning in English
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Definition
a taxpayer: a person who pays taxes to the government
Funding for the new swimming pool will come from taxpayers' money.
Examples
- "Susie : At the taxpayer's expense?"
Exercise 1
Susie talks about the offices being built "at the taxpayer's expense". What does she mean by this?
Susie talks about the offices being built "at the taxpayer's expense". What does she mean by this?
This is the best choice here. Susie implies that the citizens (the taxpayers) will have to pay for the construction of the government offices.
Although "at" is often used as a preposition of place, Susie is using the idiom "at the taxpayer's expense" in a different sense.
Although the cost of this construction will be expensive, Susie's question does not indicate how much the construction will cost, only that the people of the city are responsible for the cost.
Susie's statement does not indicate that the building will be used for tax collectors, but that the taxpayers must pay for the building.
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