tax-payer

See also: taxpayer

English

Noun

tax-payer (plural tax-payers)

Alternative form of taxpayer.
- 1848, J. S. Mill, Principles of Political Economy with some of their Applications to Social Philosophy:
  The cancelling of the debt would be no destruction of wealth, but a transfer of it: a wrongful abstraction of wealth from certain members of the community, for the profit of the government, or of the tax-payers.
- 1875, J[ohn] W[illiam] De Forest, “Mr. Hollowbread in the Bosphorus”, in Playing the Mischief. A Novel., New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], page 172, column 1:
  On the closing night of the session, on that carnival night of confused, headlong, blinded, bedlamite legislation, which costs the tax-payer so dear, Mr. Hollowbread went to bed from his protracted vigils and labors with aching loins and a dizzy sconce.
- 1991, The Astrological Magazine:
  In other words the hard-earned money of tax-payers like you and me who sweat it out 365 days a year not only to keep our body and soul together but also to keep our sciencemen in form.
- 2007 April 14, Ed Vulliamy, “Absolute MacInnes”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:
  ‘I'm just not interested in the whole class crap that seems to needle you and all the tax-payers,’ the teenager tells some ‘pre-historic monster’ of an adult, with a ‘cool’ snobbishness which MacInnes's companion on many of his Notting Hill sorties, the late Professor Richard Wollheim, compared to the ‘Sang Froid’ of Baudelaire's Dandy as he cruised through Fin-de-Siecle Paris with a similar sensibility, or lack of it.