How to Use taxpayer in a Sentence

taxpayer

noun
  • This is how a taxpayer will give them a grade.
    — Tax Notes Staff, Forbes.com, 21 Jan. 2026
  • And a lot of taxpayers didn't know about it.
    — Tax Notes Staff, Forbes.com, 21 Jan. 2026
  • In the end, taxpayers are the ones who lose.
    — Lylena D. Estabine, Chicago Tribune, 12 Jan. 2026
  • What will all these changes mean for taxpayers?
    — Francine Knowles, Chicago Tribune, 16 Mar. 2026
  • And now taxpayers will pay the price.
    — The Editorial Board, Oc Register, 15 Oct. 2025
  • But some of those fines could make their way back to taxpayers.
    — Dante Motley, Austin American Statesman, 17 Mar. 2026
  • But that doesn’t mean state taxpayers will be off the hook.
    — K. Ward Cummings, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Get ready for one of the world’s largest taxpayer bailouts.
    — Stephen Moore, Boston Herald, 20 May 2026
  • And what would taxpayers get for the money spent on these runoffs?
    — Jay Shuler, Mercury News, 27 May 2026
  • Not a good thing, but the best thing with the taxpayers' dollars.
    — Jack Fink, CBS News, 27 Mar. 2026
  • After all, these funds are paid for by the taxpayer.
    — Brittney Melton, NPR, 30 Mar. 2026
  • What’s not clear is how much the mailings cost taxpayers.
    — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 25 Feb. 2026
  • New York taxpayers share the gap.
    — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 24 Feb. 2026
  • Now taxpayers, rather than ratepayers, will pick up the tab.
    — Christopher Keating, Hartford Courant, 2 Feb. 2026
  • How much is the war costing taxpayers?
    — Bart Jansen, USA Today, 13 Mar. 2026
  • But that’s not the end of the bad news for Chicago taxpayers.
    — Jack Markowski, Chicago Tribune, 26 Jan. 2026
  • But given what is at stake, taxpayers are clearly up to the task.
    — Jon Coupal, Oc Register, 26 Apr. 2026
  • One is what to do with the city government, and what makes sense for taxpayers.
    — Jack Fink, CBS News, 11 Jan. 2026
  • Those forms and returns are used by taxpayers to file their returns.
    — Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Reece said in every draft of the lease, the taxpayers were written out.
    — Erin Glynn, The Enquirer, 2 Aug. 2025
  • In a few weeks, taxpayers will be able to start filing their taxes.
    — Hannah Hudnall, IndyStar, 13 Jan. 2026
  • Now the taxpayer is being asked to pay the balance.
    — David Frum, The Atlantic, 31 May 2026
  • Think of the cost to taxpayers for redrawing all the maps.
    — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 26 Jan. 2026
  • The money for this will come from a fund that banks pay into, rather than from taxpayers.
    — Hanna Ziady, CNN, 31 Mar. 2023
  • Not all of the salaries are funded by taxpayer dollars.
    — Phoebe Quinton, AJC.com, 27 Jan. 2026
  • There will be no taxpayer losses.
    — NBC news, 26 Oct. 2025
  • In some other cities, the art didn’t come from taxpayer dollars.
    — Lisa J. Huriash, sun-sentinel.com, 19 Nov. 2021
  • Putting his failures on the taxpayers to fix is unfair.
    — U T Readers, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Jan. 2026
  • And yet, with each passing day, the taxpayers’ bill for the war keeps ticking up.
    — Jacqueline Munis, Fortune, 24 June 2026
  • That’s my right as a citizen and a taxpayer.
    — Eleanor Dearman, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 17 Mar. 2026

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